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of SILS and the
founding chair of
the Louis Round
Wilson Academy.
“We understand
that those who pursue careers in this increasingly
important profession require an education that
engenders responsibility for all knowledge that
influences change.”
Her vision of the 21st and 22nd century
knowledge professional resembles a cross between
the Pope’s most trusted advisor and a Jedi
master—with every corporate, government,
academic and scientific leader relying on this
individual to ensure that the information on which
critical decisions are based is accurate, complete,
unbiased and relevant.
“Without trusted guides through the rapidly
accumulating volume of recorded knowledge
Citizens around
the world are becoming
more aware that they
often need a trusted
guide to help sort and
substantiate the infor-mation
they require.
Faculty members at the
School of Information
and Library Science
(SILS) agree that
leading institutions are
obliged to review and
design anew roles and
models for Knowledge Pro-fessionals
who will assume
larger and more pivotal roles in the 21st Century.
To consider and address topics ranging from
knowledge, trust, ethics and stewardship that
impact library and information science professions,
a newly formed academy of world leaders met in
Chapel Hill, N.C. on Oct. 6 and 7.
The Louis Round Wilson Academy has been
convened by the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library
Science as global thought leaders and information
revolutionaries who serve as a modern-day council
of elders.
Members were selected for their broad range
of experiences and insightful outlooks that are
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Inside this Issue
Dean’s Message........................................ 2
Faculty News.............................................. 8
Honor Roll of Donors............................13
Student News...........................................18
Alumni News............................................23
$1.5 million bequest to benefit SILS technology
Dr. William H. and Vonna K. Graves have pledged a gift of $1.5
million to the School of Information and Library Science (SILS). The
bequest, SILS’ largest to date, is intended to enhance the School’s
technology programs and services. See page 3.
Louis Round Wilson Academy Formed
Inaugural meeting held in Chapel Hill
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION
AND LIBRARY SCIENCE
focused on collecting, sharing and preserving the
record of human accomplishment, activity and
imagination. They are charged with addressing a
future of constant change in which new knowledge
professionals—experts who can help locate, evalu-ate
and guide users to credible, comprehensive
information that is relevant and reliable—must
anticipate and understand the information needs
of tomorrow’s society.
The founding members of the Academy
include presidents and chief executive officers of
information technology organizations, historians,
authors, university scholars and librarians and
information scientists from around the world.
“Our faculty, and
the faculty of every
leading University
in the world, real-izes
that the role of
the 21st and 22nd
century knowledge
professional must be
carefully shaped,”
said Dr. José-Marie
Griffiths, dean
Members of the Louis Round Wilson Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School
of Information and Library Science faculty following the formal induction ceremony in the rotunda of
the Rare Books Room of the Louis Round Wilson Library.
Continued on page 5
Photo by Tom Lippert Photography
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Director of Communications
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Communications Assistant
Dean’s Message
Sincerely,
José-Marie Griffiths
Professor and Dean
Dear friends and colleagues:
As you will discover in the pages of this newsletter, the whirlwind of activity at SILS
continues. Faculty, staff, students and alumni alike are making major contributions to our
professions and our disciplines, and to the communities they serve.
Last spring I began to discuss the need to re-introduce ourselves as indispensable al-lies
to users of recorded knowledge in the global information age. To shape and refine an
enhanced role and identity for 21st century knowledge professionals, we sought to hear
from leaders who understand today’s (and tomorrow’s) issues of ethics, trust, stewardship
and knowledge transfer. Last fall we convened the Louis Round Wilson Academy, a group of
thought-leaders and information revolutionaries.
The inaugural meeting was held in Chapel Hill in October and included spirited discus-sion
and debate on a wide range of topics including trust, ethics, knowledge, identity and
openness. Academy members were fully engaged as issues of the importance of identifying,
locating, accessing and preserving the world’s recorded knowledge were discussed.
To commemorate the establishment of the Academy, we held a night-time induction
ceremony in the Rare Book Room of the Wilson Library. SILS faculty, in full academic rega-lia,
witnessed each inductee sign a specially designed register. The entire ceremony created
an almost magical memory in its place, time and formality ��� very Harry Potterish!
Just before the end of the Academy meeting, we were delighted to receive and accept
an invitation from the Spanish Embassy and the University of Granada to hold the next
Academy meeting in Granada, Spain.
One lunchtime discussion during the meeting led to the University Library and SILS
joining the Open Content Alliance (OCA). OCA is a group of organizations from around the
world that are building a permanent archive of digitized text and multi-media materials.
The School’s role will be to collaborate with the Alliance on research and to participate on
Alliance working groups.
While actively participating in these global efforts, we are also preparing to celebrate
SILS’ 75th anniversary next academic year. The first class was held on September 17th
1931 and the first graduation was on June 7, 1932. Our watchwords for the celebration are:
rededication, redefinition and commitment:
• Rededication to the high ethical and professional standards that have made this school
and those entrusted to its care, among the best in the nation.
• Redefinition of our ongoing mission to educate and train the “next” generation of
knowledge professionals, and, indeed, an ongoing redefinition of our profession itself.
• Commitment to the highest standards of stewardship of what we believe is now, perhaps
for the first time in history, a globally accessible Knowledge Trust, comprising the totality
of mankind’s recorded knowledge . . . a trust never more accessible, never more at risk, and
never more in need of conscientious, professional, and dedicated stewardship.
We plan to launch the celebration of our anniversary with a week of events starting the
afternoon of September 18th. Other events are planned during the year. Much has changed
over the past 75 years, but our goal of providing excellence in education, research and public
engagement stands constant. Watch for updates on our anniversary plans on our Web site
and in upcoming newsletters.
Finally, I’d like to acknowledge the generosity of so many of you. Your contributions are
all appreciated by us and they all do help us in our pursuit of excellence. I hope you’ll come
back to SILS during the anniversary year to remember the good times and the bad times, to
renew fellowship and camaraderie, and let those of us still here, shake your hand and say a
heartfelt “thank you.”
75th Anniversary C ommittee formed
$1.5 million bequest to benefit techology at SILS
The School of Information and Library
Science will celebrate its 75th anniversary
beginning in fall 2006. To prepare for the year-long
celebration, a planning committee has
been formed.
The first meeting of the group allowed
members to begin discussing ideas for activities
and events for the anniversary celebration. In
addition to reviewing feedback from the Alumni
Association Board and the SILS Board of
Visitors, members conducted a brainstorming
session, developed a preliminary time line and
compiled an initial list of tasks.
Watch for more information about the
75th anniversary on the SILS Web site and in
the next issue of the newsletter. q
The SILS 75th Anniversary Planning Committee. From left to right: David Goble, commit-tee
chair and dean of libraries, Central Piedmont Community College; Julie Harris, Alumni
Association treasurer; Shawn Jackson, director of development; Sarah Snow, chair, Board
of Visitors; Dan Morrow, principal, Jamestown Exploration; Mary Boone, state librarian;
Claudia Gollop, associate dean; José-Marie Griffiths, dean; Wayne Pond, director of UNC’s
Humanities and Human Values; and Karen Sobel, SILS student. Not pictured, David Carr,
associate professor; and Wanda Monroe, director of communications.
Dr. William H. and Vonna K.
Graves have pledged a gift of $1.5
million to the School of Information
and Library
Science
(SILS) at the
Univer-sity
of North
Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
The bequest,
SILS’ largest to date, is intended to
enhance the School’s technology
programs and services.
“The idea is to improve not
only programmatic quality, but also
simultaneously the School’s unit
cost structures and the flexibility
and convenience of its programs for
students—to make the School an
unparalleled exemplar of mea-surable
quality, accessibility and
efficiency,” said Graves.
The couple envisions their gift
being used to “flatten” the School’s
programs and services in ways
currently being discussed by readers
of the book, The World is Flat,
by Thomas Friedman. The book
describes the societal and economic
imperatives for using information
technology to create new collabora-tive
business and organization mod-els.
Graves, an expert on the uses of
IT in higher education, just wrote
of these possibilities in “Improving
Institutional Performance through
IT-Enabled Innovation” in the
November/December (2005) issue
of the EDUCAUSE Review, and he
comments on them frequently in his
blog (Web log) at: http://institution-alperformance.
typepad.com
“To prepare our students
to succeed in a world that is ever
changing, it is imperative that
we not only demonstrate how
technology is altering the way
organizations—both public and
private—gather, analyze, apply and
distribute information, but also use
it to open new avenues of learning
and engagement for our students,”
said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of
SILS. “Through this generous gift
from Bill and Vonna Graves, we will
be able to offer students new learn-ing
opportunities and experiences
in a state-of-the-art technology en-vironment
that extends globally. We
are very grateful for this bequest and
for the thoughtful insight offered by
the Graves’ to enhance the School’s
future through technology.”
William Graves, professor
emeritus of mathematics at UNC at
Chapel Hill and senior vice president
for academic strategy at Collegis,
interacted with SILS faculty on the
School’s planning efforts during the
mid-1990s. He says he was impressed
with the school and its people and
their “can-do, roll-up-the-sleeves at-titude”
to serving their students and
improving their already top-notch
professional programs.
“Dr. Barbara Moran, who was
dean at the time, and colleagues
such as Professor Evelyn Daniel were
providing unselfish leadership that
set the School apart as dedicated not
only to academic excellence, but
also to a public service ethic that is
sometimes not the norm in research
universities,” said Graves. “I hold the
School in high regard and believe
that Dean José-Marie Griffiths will
continue to lead the School forward
on the path of academic excel-lence
and public service still being
practiced by the School’s faculty and
staff.”
Graves served as associate
dean for general education, interim
vice chancellor for academic affairs
and senior information technology
officer under various titles at UNC at
Chapel Hill. He was the founder and
director of the Institute for Academic
Technology—a UNC/IBM alliance.
In 1999 he retired from UNC to
found and chair the board of Edu-prise,
Inc., an academic technology
services firm that subsequently
merged with Collegis, now SunGard
Collegis. He writes a periodic
academic technology column for
Campus Technology and serves as a
co-founding board member on the
boards of both the National Center
for Academic Transformation and
the Alliance for Higher Education
Competitiveness.
The $1.5 million planned
gift counts toward the university’s
Carolina First Campaign goal
of $2 billion. Carolina First is a
comprehensive, multi-year, private
fund-raising campaign to support
Carolina‘s vision of becoming the
nation’s leading public university.
q
SILS and UNC Libraries join the Open Content Alliance
The University Library and SILS
have joined the Open Content Alliance
(OCA), a group of organizations from
around the world that are building a
permanent archive of digitized text and
multimedia materials.
The collections included in the
archive are available for access and
reuse by the global population, while
“respecting the rights of content owners
and contributors.”
The School is the first from a uni-versity
to join the alliance; the library is
the first to contribute manuscripts.
The library will initially focus on a
project to digitize manuscripts from its
Southern Historical Collection.
“These are unique items such as
letters, notes, diaries, handwritten records,
even photos,” said Sarah C. Michalak, SILS
professor, university librarian and associ-ate
provost for University Libraries. “They
are fragile, sometimes they’re hard to read,
and they can be very difficult to convert to
digital form. But each one tells a unique
story. Making them available through the
Open Content Alliance for the world to use
is an exciting opportunity.”
SILS faculty will collaborate with
the Alliance on research and participate
on alliance working groups as will UNC
librarians.
This is not SILS’ first time participat-ing
in the open dissemination of digital in-formation.
The School has been research-ing,
developing and providing open source
software and open digital content through
projects such as ibiblio.org and the Open
Video project. The projects have led to
an expansion of information that would
otherwise be unavailable.
Photo by Songphan Choemprayong
Handling e-mail overload
The situation is all too familiar: e-mail gradually piles up, until one
day your inbox holds 1,342 messages.
Files nest deep inside the office computer network, never to be seen
again. Or you spend hours editing a document, only to find that you’ve
been working on the wrong copy and must start over.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
Duke University have been tackling these problems for three years. Now,
they have created an online tutorial on how best to manage e-mail and
computer files, available free at www.ils.unc.edu/digitaldesktop.
Their project, ��Managing the Digital University Desktop,” involved
studying ways employees at Duke and all 16 UNC campuses deal with the
masses of e-mail and other electronic information that come their way.
“Information overload and e-mail management are insidious and
universal problems that threaten the retention and retrieval of institu-tional
digital assets,” said Dr. Helen Tibbo, principle investigator for the
project and a professor at SILS.
An employee may be able to find lost files and e-mail messages with
search mechanisms, Tibbo said. But other staff who need to access the
employee’s files have difficulty when there is little rhyme or reason to file
names and organizational schemes.
“Managing electronic records is more challenging than organiz-ing
paper records, because users can create, copy and distribute files
so easily, and because there is no apparent need to delete or organize
material when storage costs continuously decrease,” said Tibbo. “Since
few computer programs – such as word processing or e-mail – include
records management features, employees without training in information
organization or archiving often are left to fend for themselves when it
comes to managing files.”
Besides the tutorial, the team posted presentations that may be used
for instruction. The Web site also includes an extensive bibliography, links
to associated resources and frequently asked questions.
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the
grant-making affiliate of the National Archives and Records Adminis-tration,
awarded UNC two grants totaling $253,135 over the three year
period. University Archives and Records Service hosted additional free
workshops on e-mail management.
Members of the Duke research team included project principle
investigator Timothy Pyatt, university archivist; project consultant Dr.
Paul Conway, director of Library Digital Assets Initiatives for the University
Libraries; and project adviser David Mitchell, certified records manager,
University Records.
UNC researchers include principle investigator, Helen Tibbo, profes-sor;
advisers Frank Holt, records service coordinator, and Janis Holder,
university archivist; and managers Ruth Monnig, Megan Winget (doctoral
student at SILS) and Kimberly Chang.
“It was great working with such a wonderful team that blended aca-demics
and archival and records management practitioners,” said Tibbo.
“This project could not have been conducted without such a collaboration
and the support of SILS, the UNC at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library,
and Duke University Libraries.” q
In addition to documents, the library
will contribute expertise acquired through
its Documenting the American South
digital library and related projects, says
Michalak.
“This joint initiative will allow us
to expand the capability and influence of
our research while engaging our students,
thereby enhancing their educational
experience,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths,
dean and professor of SILS. “We can provide
expertise in the areas of digitization of not
only books, but video and multimedia,
metadata design and development and
digital curation and preservation.”
More than 30 organizations have
joined the Alliance, among them are The
New York Times, MSN, Yahoo!, Research
Library Group (RLG) and various universi-ties
throughout the country.
“The Open Content Alliance is based
on the fundamental principles of openness.
We are delighted to participate in an effort
that will expand the availability of and
access to open content,” said Griffiths. q
LRWA continued from page 1
that is available, global society will lose both
confidence and the innovative spirit. As knowl-edge
leaders, we must move immediately to
shape curricula and career paths that respond
precisely to emerging needs in industry, govern-ment,
science and academia,” said Griffiths.
“Citizens of the world are increasingly
aware that they need help in sorting and sub-stantiating
the information they require,” said
Griffiths. “I agree with fellow Academy member
James J. O’Donnell, provost of Georgetown Uni-versity,
when he says the librarian of the future
will have to be a more active participant in
­decision-
making or we will live in infochaos.”
In O’Donnell’s book, Avatars of the Word,
he puts what he refers to as “the historical
moment” in which we live into perspective and
points to what he believes may be our future as
we move toward cyberspace. Both O’Donnell
and Griffiths believe that information specialists
and librarians of the future will be immensely
important.
“If the traditional librarian has been
conceived as a figure at home in the discreet
silences and cautious dealings of a Henry James
novel,” O’Donnell writes, “…now, perhaps the
right model will be found in James Fenimore
Cooper or the Star Wars films: something
between the pathfinder Natty Bumppo and the
Jedi knight.”
By founding the Academy, Griffiths and
her colleagues intend to take on the extraordi-nary
assignment of reviewing and re-designing
roles and models for knowledge professionals
entering the field as well as professionals who
are assuming new and important roles.
The next meeting of the Academy will
be held in Granada, Spain at the invitation of
the Spanish government and the University of
Granada. q
Photo by Tom Lippert Photography
Dr. Robert Martin, former director of the federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services and
current Lillian Bradshaw endowed chair of
Library Science, Texas Woman’s University.
Current Academy members include:
• James Bailey, author and scholar
• Chris Batt, chief executive, Museums,
Libraries and Archives Council
• Dr. Lynne Brindley, chief executive, The
British Library
• Lonnie C. Bunch, founding director of the
National Museum of African American History
and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
• Dr. Reginald Carr, director of University
Library and Bodley’s Librarian, Oxford
University
• Dr. Joan Challinor, former chair, United
States National Commission on Libraries and
Information Science
• Dr. Nancy Davenport, president, Council on
Library and Information Resources
• Catherine DeRosa, vice president of
marketing and library services, OCLC Online
Computer Library Center, Inc.
• Dr. Beth D. Fitzsimmons, president,
Information Strategists, Inc.
• Ubaldo Gonzalez, senior representative,
Spanish Ministry of Finance, Embasay of
Spain
• Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean, School of
Information and Library Science, UNC at
Chapel Hill
• Kenneth Hamma, senior advisor for
Information Policy, J. Paul Getty Trust
• Dr. Paul Horn, executive vice president and
director of Research, IBM Corporation
• Jay Jordan, president and CEO, OCLC
Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
• Brewster Kahle, digital librarian, director and
co-founder, Internet Archive
• Donald King, visiting scholar, UNC at Chapel
Hill, research professor, University of Pittsburgh
• Paula Le Dieu, director, iCommons
• Dr. Robert Martin, Lillian Bradshaw endowed
chair of Library Science, Texas Woman’s
University
• Daniel Morrow, director emeritus,
Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program
• Dave Nicholas, professor of Library and
Information Studies and director of SLAIS,
University College London
• Cathy Norton, director, Marine Biological
Library/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Dr. James J. O’Donnell, provost, Georgetown
University
• Dr. Wayne Pond, director, Program in
Humanities and Human Values, UNC at Chapel
Hill
• Tom Rabon, executive vice president,
Corporate Affairs, Red Hat
• Dr. Yael Ravin, program director, Learning and
Organizational Performance, IBM
• Dr. Eva Mendez Rodriguez, Department
Biblioteconomía y Documentación, ­Univer­sidad
Carlos III de Madrid
• Steve Seidel, Arts in Education Program,
Harvard University Graduate School of
Education
• Dr. Terry Sharrer, curator of Health Sciences,
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of
American History
• Dr. Robert Shelton, executive vice
chancellor and provost, UNC at Chapel Hill
• Dr. Vivian Siegel, senior editor, Department
of Pathology, University of California, San
Francisco
• Matthew Szulik, chairman, CEO, and
president, Red Hat
• Dr. Winston Tabb, dean of University
Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University
• Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia
• John Wilkin, associate university librarian
for Library Information Technology and
Technical and Access Services, University of
Michigan
• Dr. Ian Wilson, librarian and archivist of
Library and Archives of Canada
• Dr. Ann Wolpert, director, MIT Libraries,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Nicole Wong, associate general counsel,
Google, Inc.
• Dr. Shoshana Zuboff, Charles Edward Wilson
Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
Business School
School Life
Opening information horizons
6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006
Mark your calendar for the 2006 Joint Conference on Digital Librar-ies
(JCDL), hosted by the School of Information and Library Science at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The event will take place
June 11 - 15, 2006.
With a theme of “Opening Information Horizons,” the international
event encompasses the many meanings of the term “digital libraries,”
including new forms of information institutions; operational information
systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, col-lecting,
organizing, and distributing digital content; digital preservation
and archiving; and theoretical models of information media, including
document genres and electronic publishing.
This year’s program will include peer-reviewed papers and posters as
well as demonstrations and two plenary sessions:
“Getting Books Online: Practices and Strategies.” A plenary panel on
Monday, June 12.
Panelists include:
• Daniel Clancy, engineer director for Google Print
• David Ferriero, Andrew W. Mellon director and chief executive of
The Research Libraries at The New York Public Library
• Daniel Greenstein, university librarian, California Digital Library
“Open Information: Redaction, Restriction, and Removal.” Jonathan
Zittrain of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law
School Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford will present on
Tuesday, June 13.
“JCDL ’06 will celebrate the progress in making digital information
accessible to people around the world, consider ways in which digital
libraries can help individuals achieve their goals and assist people from
around the globe to understand one another,” said Dr. Gary Marchionini,
conference chair. “We invite you to attend this premier research and
development conference in the friendly venue of Chapel Hill. Join us!”q
To register, or to learn more about the 2006 JCDL Conference, visit the
Web site at: www.jcdl2006.org/
SILS participates in new
Bioinformatics Research
Center
The School of Information and Library Science will participate in a
new $4.5 million research center funded by the United States Environ-mental
Protection Agency (EPA).
The Carolina Environmental Bioinformatics Research Center
(CEBRC) has been created to “foster collaboratory research between
environmental bioinformatics researchers nationwide, and to provide
for the interchange of research data and scholarly information.”
The CEBRC will initially host basic science research projects in-cluding
Biostatistics, ChemInfomatics and Computational Infrastruc-ture.
In addition, the Public Outreach and Translational Activities
(POTA) project will facilitate the exchange and communication of
environmental research between the EPA and the different constituen-cies
it serves (universities, libraries, corporate research, the public,
government agencies and Congress). Dr. Brad Hemminger, assistant
professor at SILS, is the director of POTA as well as an investigator on
the Computational Infrastructure project.
The first program of POTA will be to expand the existing suc-cessful
SILS EPA/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
(NIEHS) internship program.
Developed in conjunction with April Errickson (MSLS ’99),
director of the EPA Library at Research Triangle Park (RTP), N.C., the
expansion will include an internship funded by the CEBRC fellow-ships
for library science students trained in the specialized areas of
environmental and bioinformatics sciences.
For the computational infrastructure project Hemminger and
Dr. David Stotts (project leader, Computer Science) are investigating
common software development frameworks that will allow research-ers
from many different science areas, as well as different locations, to
be involved in common developmental projects. Hemminger’s focus
is on analyzing scientist’s data and scholarly communication needs,
and the evaluation of metadata and standards needed to support
common software development frameworks.
The Center’s Biostatistics project is led by the CEBRC principal
investigator, Fred Wright, associate professor of biostatistics. The
project is responsible for developing new statistical methods and
performing analyses for the computational toxicology community.
Alex Tropsha, professor of Pharmacy, heads the ChemInformat-ics
project, which will coordinate the compilation of data from rel-evant
external chem-informatics databases and perform data mining
to investigate Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships.
As one of only two such research centers funded by the EPA in
the nation, the CEBRC is a unique collaboration including members
from UNC’s Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Pharmacy, Informa-tion
and Library Science and the College of Arts and Sciences. Those
involved with the new Center will work closely with the EPA’s National
Center for Computational Toxicology, located in RTP. q
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School Life
Rare films come to life online
Once confined to dusty film canisters
and dark library shelves, some rare American
films are seeing new life through a joint project
between three University of North Carolina
organizations and Folkstreams, Inc. The groups
have collaborated to create folkstreams.net, a
video streaming Web site built as a national
preserve of documentary films about American
folk and roots culture.
The hard-to-find films now made avail-able
through folkstreams.net represent some
of the most significant and artistic documen-taries
of the 20th century, and they give voice
to the arts and experiences of diverse American
groups. They are accompanied on the Web site
by background materials that provide context
to both the films and their subjects. The films
are protected by copyright, but use of the site
is free.
“Heretofore, much good independent film
work was like the tree falling in the wilderness
with no one to hear,” said Tom Davenport,
Folkstreams project director and independent
filmmaker. “With the Internet and video stream-ing,
we will be able to make a ‘national park’
from this wilderness where everyone can come
and freely hear and see what we have labored on
for so long and
with such enjoy-ment.”
Viewers can
now find films
like Cowboy
Poets, represent-ing
three aspects
of the cowboy-poetry tradition; Give My Poor
Heart Ease, a 1975 account of the blues experi-ence
through the recollections and performances
of B.B. King, James “Son” Thomas, Shelby
“Poppa Jazz” Brown, James “Blood” Shelby,
Cleveland “Broom Man” Jones, and inmates from
Parchman prison; and The Angel That Stands
By Me: Minnie Evans’ Paintings, a portrait of
African-American visionary artist Minnie Evans
and others that have won film festival awards and
critical acclaim.
Folkstreams.net currently streams 55 films
by some of America‘s best-known independent
documentary filmmakers, including Les Blank,
John Cohen, Tom Davenport, William Ferris, Paul
Wagner, Michal Goldman and Susan Levitas.
UNC’s School of Informa-tion
and Library Science, the
Southern Folklife Collection
and ibiblio.org partnered with
Folkstreams, Inc. to create
folkstreams.net. ibiblio.org is
a free public library of digital
material that provides server
space and digital streams for
Folkstreams.net. The Southern
Folklife Collection maintains the film and tape
archives.
The project has been supported through
a $95,000 National Leadership Grant from the
Insti­tute
of Museum and Library Services since
­October
2004. Folkstreams.net also receives support
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
National Endowment for the Humanities. q
Trends in health care and health
information that provide new op-portunities
for partnerships between
information and library sciences and
those in public health, were key topics
of the 2005 Henderson Lecture, entitled,
“Books, Bytes and Bugs.” Dr. Barbara
K. Rimer, dean of the School of Public
Health, discussed patients and the
public within an information rich environment.
Rimer discussed the importance of integrating information and
library sciences and public health; sources people use when seeking
health information; health communication in the information en-vironment;
the role the Internet plays in health information; and the
challenges of organizing, integrating and analyzing large amounts of
public health data.
Health information and communication challenges facing
physicians and other health providers were also discussed. Rimer said
that physicians and those in the health field are inundated with infor-mation
that must be organized, and accessible when it is needed. She
added that public health practitioners often work in computer-poor
environments and although they need information they
may lack access. Rimer noted that while the right information
is needed, people often receive too much information. “People
are bombarded with health information each day and they need
help making sense of it all,” said Rimer. “Online support is one
way people cope.”
Rimer discussed possible areas of collaboration between
SILS and the School of Public Health, suggesting a move
forward to reinvigorate a cross-university health informatics
program with a teaching and research focus (in process).
The annual Henderson Lecture was established in 1990 to
honor the memory of Lucile Kelling Henderson, faculty member
(1932-1960) and dean (1954-1960) of what was then known
as the School of Library Science. Previous lecturers include Dr.
Fred Kilgour, a Distinguished Research Professor in the SILS
and founder of OCLC the Online Computer Library Center; and
Dr. Herbert Van de Sompel, team leader of the Digital Library
Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the
Los Alamos National Laboratory. q
Henderson lecture reveals “books, bytes and bugs”
lina, as well as other local communities. He
currently convenes the Carrboreaders Reading
Group in Carrboro, and recently moderated that
community’s three Community Book Forums.
In addition, community reading was the theme
of his recent presentations in Fredericksburg, Va
and at Duke University.
Developing community through reading
is a topic close to Carr’s heart. His involvement
and professional interests are the basis of his
current research project, “When Communities
Read.” He demonstrates his enthusiasm for
reading by sharing his expertise with commu-nities
far and wide.
“My participation in these sessions is
always exciting,” said Carr. “When people have
read something strong and enriching – when
they have read with their hearts open – it en-hances
the experience if they can come together
in an intimate forum to talk. Toni Morrison
says that reading should have a ‘talking life,’
communication with others that follows the
solitary experience. When communities read,
they are learning lessons together that continu-ously
connect them to each other.” q
What’s Happening with Faculty & Staff
Almost eight marathons!
Paul Jones, clinical associate professor
at SILS and director of the ibiblio online
library and archive, will serve as judge for
a newly created annual award for blog-gers-
turned-published authors. Lulu.com
has set up the Blooker Prize for authors
who began their writing as blogs and
have turned them into fiction, non-fiction
and comic
“blooks” in
print form.
Blooks are
a new trend
in literature
and have been
discussed as
helping read-ers
connect
with authors
through the
use of episodic and short chapters. While
some blooks digress from the traditional
blog style using the blog only for a start-ing
point, they have also been known to
be collaborative efforts that have resulted
from the feedback of blog audiences
before being published.
Jones will join other prize judges to
assess online books based on material
first published on blogs and select the
best for awards. More than 100 blooks
have already been discussed as possible
nominees. Joining Jones on the judging
committee will be prominent net activist
Cory Doctorow and Robin Miller, editor-in-
chief of online technology publisher of
the Open Source Technology Group.
The Blooker Prize will be awarded
annually with small cash prizes for the
winners from Lulu.com, the world’s fast-est-
growing provider of print-on-demand
books, including an increasing number
of blooks. q
When communities read . . . Paul Jones ­judges
world’s first
­Blooker
Prize
A staunch proponent of library-centered
reading groups, Dr. David Carr, SILS associate
professor, is leading training sessions focused
on facilitating group discussions for “Durham
Reads Together,” a program designed to assist
in providing the Durham community and pub-lic
schools with books, services and other re-sources
that inform, inspire learning, cultivate
understanding and excite the imagination.
A member of the “Durham Reads
Together” Steering Committee, Carr has also
worked with community-wide reading projects
in Forsyth and Wake counties in North Caro-
It was an uphill battle for Scott Adams,
technology director at SILS, as he took on the
200-mile-long Blue Ridge Parkway in memory of
friend Jay Clark, who died of cancer last spring.
Despite turbulent weather and strained tendons,
Adams pushed on with friend and fellow SILS
graduate Les Chaffin
(MSLS ’98), who biked
along next to him, in
hopes of raising aware-ness
and money for
cancer research.
While Adams
focused on the trail, he
never lost sight of the
true cause: “Any pain
that we endured during
the run wouldn’t even
come close to the pain that Jay endured while
battling cancer,” Adams said.
The athletes decided to undertake the diffi-cult
run after Clark, a lifelong friend of Chaffin’s,
lost his five year battle with cancer. Friends and
colleagues also urged him on and demonstrated
their support by contributing to the funds set in
Clark’s name. The run raised nearly $7,000.
“Though the 200 mile run was a
life event for me personally, I am
even more convinced that we are a
team when faced with challenges
bigger than ourselves,” said Adams.
“We accomplish nothing without
the care, love and tolerance of
those around us. Les and I have
been overwhelmed by the honor
paid to Jay (Clark) through sup-port,
sharing of stories and prayers
for success. We are very thankful for all
the help we have received and the encouragement
we continue to receive.” q
Photo by Kristin Chaffin and Mindy Adams
Photo by Donald Sizemore
What’s Happening with Faculty & Staff
Tibbo honored for outstanding contributions
Haas named McColl
Term Professor
The National Science Foundation has
awarded a three-year grant of over a half mil-lion
dollars to the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill and Virginia Polytechnic Insti-tute
and State University (Virginia Tech)
to develop a digital
library curriculum.
The project is
entitled “Collaborative
Research: Curriculum
Development: Digital
Libraries.” The effort at
SILS will be led by Dr.
Barbara Wildemuth,
principal investigator
and Francis Carroll
McColl Term Profes-sor,
and Dr. Jeffrey P.
Pomerantz, co-principal
investigator and assistant
professor, and Virginia Tech’s effort will be led
by Dr. Edward A. Fox, principal investigator and
professor of computer science.
“The research will focus on developing
and field testing individual lessons/modules
that can be incorporated within courses or used
to support an entire course,” said Wildemuth.
“With the assistance of our Advisory Board,
students in doctoral consortia and other
experts, we will design,
implement and field test
the modules.”
“Programs in
computer science, as
well as information and
library science, at any
institution with interest
in digital libraries, may
draw upon the project
deliverables to enhance
existing courses, add
digital library (or
related) courses or even
deploy a digital library
curriculum,” said Fox. “Digital library users
will thus benefit from the improved under-standing
of those who build the next generation
of digital library systems,” he added. q
From left to right, Dr. Barbara Wildemuth,
UNC at Chapel Hill; Dr. Edward Fox,Virginia Tech;
and Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz, UNC at Chapel Hill.
Grant funds research on digital library curriculum
Dr. Helen Tibbo, professor at SILS, has been
inducted as a fellow of the Society of American
Archivists. The prestigious award was presented
during a special awards ceremony at SAA’s 69th
Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Fellow is the highest honor bestowed by
SAA to members who demonstrate outstanding
contributions to the archival profession.
“Dr. Tibbo has a strong commitment to
and passion for archives and technological
developments,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths,
dean of SILS. “She is a person of vision, colle-giality
and ethical practice who is committed to
mentoring and developing the next generation
of archivists. She is very deserving of this profes-sional
honor.”
Tibbo is known globally for her work with
archives and records management, informa-tion
services for the humanities, electronic
information retrieval and reference service. She
has won several awards and recognitions for
her achievements—including the School of
Information and Library Science’s 2000 Frances
Carroll McColl Term Professorship.
Her current research projects include
“Developing Standardized Metrics: Towards
Understanding the Impact of College and
University Archives and Special Collections on
Scholarship, Teaching, and Learning,” funded
by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; “Minds
of Carolina,” a project that is exploring how
to best facilitate self-archiving at colleges and
universities; and the National Historical Pub-lications
and Records Commission (NHPRC)
Electronic Records Research Fellowship
Program: Building Capacity Across the Profes-sion.
For the next two years she will be chairing
UNC’s Digital Curation/Institutional Reposito-ries
Committee that will plan and build a pilot
digital repository for UNC at Chapel Hill. q
Dr. Stephanie W. Haas has been named
Francis Carroll McColl Term Professor. She
was selected for her contributions to re-search,
teaching and service to SILS. She has
previously been honored with the American
Society for Information Science Outstand-ing
Information Science Teacher of the Year
Award in 1996, and the SILS Outstanding
Teaching Award in 1997.
Haas teaches courses on databases,
systems analysis, information models,
organization of information, applications of
natural language processing and informa-tion
retrieval. Her current research seeks to
create an integrated model of user access to
and use of governmental statistical informa-tion
(GovStat). Haas’ research extends to
the North Carolina Emergency Department
Database (NCEDD), which makes hospital
emergency department data available for
public health surveillance. The Chief Com-plaint
Vocabulary Project seeks to analyze
the form and content of chief complaints
made in hospital emergency rooms in an
effort to develop a standardized vocabulary.
“We are able to award this additional
professorship because of two generous
donations of support for faculty retention
from Bill and Sara McCoy and from Duncan
Smith,�� said Dr. Jose-Marie Griffiths, dean
of SILS. “We are grateful for their continued
support and generosity.”
Hugh McColl, Jr. established the McColl
Professorship in memory of his mother,
Frances Carroll McColl, and sister, Frances
McColl Covington. McColl said he was in-spired
by the school’s needs and his mother’s
love of literature. “My mother taught every-one
in the family to love books, and we have
prospered from having access to them and,
perhaps more important, knowing where to
turn to find the information we need.” q
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Faculty & Staff News
The latest issue of Library and Information Science Research (vol 27 #3)
included Assistant Professor Dr. Deborah Barreau’s paper, “Integra-tion
of Information Professionals in the Newsroom: Two Organizational
Models for Research Services.” This paper is the result of her SLA grant
project and suggests that librarians who are integrated as part of news
teams are more valued and happier than those who are “pooled.”
Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of SILS, has served on the United States
President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee for the past two
years. The committee released three reports including: “Report to the Presi-dent
on Computational Science: Ensuring America’s Competitiveness,”
the “Report to the President on Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization,”
and the “Report to the President on Revolutionizing Health Care Through
Information Technology.” The reports are available on the Web at: www.
nitrd.gov/pitac/reports/index.html
“Accessing Government Statistical Information,” an article by
Stephanie Haas, Gary Marchionini and SILS doctoral student
Junliang Zhang was recently published in IEEE Computer. The
article is based on their work with the GovStat project and part of an
IEEE Computer issue focusing on digital government.
Congratulations to Shawn Jackson,
director of development, and her hus-band
Morgan, who welcomed their first
child Emsley Taylor Jackson on Oct. 25,
2005. Emsley was 10 pounds and 21.5
inches long.
Assistant Professor Dr. Diane Kelly’s paper,
“The loquacious user: A document-indepen-dent
source of terms for query expansion” was
presented at the Special Interest Group
on Information Retrieval’s 2005 Conference
in Salvador, Brazil. Another of Kelly’s papers,
“Evaluating personal information management
behaviors and tools” was published in the Janu-ary
issue of Communications of the ACM. Kelly has also been awarded
the Eugene Garfield-ALISA Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2006. The title
of her dissertation is, “Understanding implicit feedback and document
preference: A naturalistic user study.”
Christopher (Cal)
Lee joined the
faculty at the School
of Information and
Library Science on
July 1, 2005. Cal
comes to SILS from
the University of
Michigan where he
received two outstanding teaching awards.
He specializes in archives and records man-agement,
and he teaches “Introduction to
Archives and Records Management.”
Mark Winston,
a noted leadership
and diversity scholar,
joined SILS faculty as
an associate professor
on January 1. Mark
was previously at
Rutgers University
where, for the last seven years, he has taught
undergraduate and graduate courses in
leadership, management and organizational
behavior, knowledge creation and use and
reference and information services.
SILS welcomes Dr. Eva Ma Méndez
Rodríguez, a visiting Fulbright Scholar
from the University Carlos III of Madrid
where she has been teaching and researching
since 1997. She
holds a Ph.D.
(cum laude)
in Information
Science from the
same University,
defending her
thesis in the
academic year
2001-2002, which was subsequently awarded
a further prize as the outstanding thesis of
the year in that field.
Lara Bailey has
been promoted to
undergraduate student
services manager. For
the past two years Lara
has been a familiar
face at SILS. She works
with undergraduate students in her new
position.
Meg McKee has
joined SILS staff
as the student ser-vices
assistant in the
Dean’s Office. She
provides administra-tive
support and
greets visitors. Meg graduated from Wake Forest
University in 2003, and after a short time as
program coordinator at Boston University’s
School of Law she is excited to be back in the
warmer weather.
Sarah Aerni has
joined SILS as a
research assistant and
facilitator on projects
under Dr. José-Marie
Griffiths. A graduate
of the University of
Pittsburgh, she has a
bachelor’s degree in economics and a Master’s
in Library Science. Sarah works mostly from
her home in Pittsburgh and plays ultimate
Frisbee in her spare time.
SILS welcomes new faculty and staff
Dr. Robert Losee’s paper, “A Performance Model of the Length and Number
of Subject Headings and Index Phrases” was published in Knowledge Organiza-tion.
In the analysis, Losee provides guidelines for determining and assigning
subject headings and index phrases. Losee’s article entitled “Browsing mixed
structured and unstructured data,” was published in Information Processing &
Management. The article features his work on the use of gray codes to produce
optimal ordering for browsing.
Dr. Joanne Marshall, alumni distinguished profes-sor,
was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from
McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She received the
degree based on her years of service to the field of library
and information science. The honorary doctorate is the
highest academic honor that McGill University can be-stow,
recognizing individuals who have made outstanding
contributions in their fields.
Dr. Barbara B. Moran, professor, has been selected
for a Fulbright Senior Specialists project at the Institute
for Library and Information Studies at Charles University
in Prague, Czech Republic. Moran will travel abroad in
2006 through the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program.
The program, created in 2000 to complement the tradi-tional
Fulbright Scholar Program, provides short-term
academic opportunities to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support
curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at post second-ary,
academic institutions around the world.
Assistant Professor Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz served
on his first National Science Foundation review panel
last summer. His paper entitled, “A Linguistic Analysis
of Question Taxonomies” was published in the April
edition of the Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology. In addition, Dr.
Pomerantz was awarded the 2006 OCLC/ALISE Library
and Information Science Research Grant for his project,
“The Return on Investment of Collaborative Virtual Reference Service.”
Drs. Jeffrey Pomerantz and Diane Kelly, assistant professors, have each
received a UNC Junior Faculty Development Award. Pomerantz will be using the
award funding to launch a project to multi-state evaluation of statewide virtual
reference services. The purpose of Kelly’s project is to evaluate a novel informa-tion
seeking environment that could impact the ways in which information is
located on the Web.
Congratulations to Dr. Brian Sturm,
associate professor, and his wife Monica, who
welcomed their first child, Nicholas Atherton
Sanchez Sturm on November 11, at 8:58 p.m.
He weighed 6lb. 15oz. and measured 51cm.
Dr. Barbara Wildemuth, Francis Carroll McColl Term Professor, was featured
on a Webcast conducted on LiS Interactive Webcasting from the University of
Missouri. The February 16 interview focused on the topic of “Studying Online
Search Behaviors” and included discussion with Dr. Carol Barry from Louisiana
State University.
Faculty & Staff News
Dr. Jane Greenberg, associate professor, has been ap-pointed
to the Advisory Board of the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI). The Advisory Board is comprised of
global experts in the field of metadata who advise the
DCMI Directorate “on all technical and strategic issues
that occur during the operation of the DCMI.”
In addition to advising on specific DCMI activities,
the Advisory Board also has an external role with the
Dublin Core community and a range of global metadata
initiatives.
“The DCMI has had a significant impact in the area
of metadata development and improving access to digital
resources,” said Greenberg. “The DCMI is an exciting
and important international initiative, spanning many
disciplines and endeavors.”
Greenberg was also appointed co-chair of the DCMI
Tools Working Group, along with Thomas Severiens of the
University of Osnabrueck, Germany. The Working Group
provides a forum for those who develop metadata tools
and individuals interested in using metadata applications.
Severiens recently visited the SILS Metadata Research
Center (MRC), where he and Greenberg began work on an
application profile for describing functions and algorithms
of metadata tools.
This year, in keeping with the international spirit of
the DCMI, the MRC is hosting Professor Eva Mª Méndez
Rodríguez from the Library and Information Sciences
Department, University Carlos III of Madrid. Méndez served
as Program Chair of the Dublin Core 2005 Conference
in Madrid, Spain. She is a European Union Fulbright
scholar and the MRC’s first in-house international scholar.
Greenberg and Méndez are collaborating on several
projects including editing a book that addresses ways in
which librarians, particularly those with cataloging and
classification expertise, can contribute to the development
of a more intelligent information infrastructure defined by
the Semantic Web.q
Greenberg appointed to
DCMI Advisory Board and
Working Group
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$150,000 gift from Microsoft
Development
Drs. Gary Marchionini, Cary C.
Boshamer Distinguished professor; Paul
Solomon, associate professor and associate
dean; and Cathy Blake, assistant professor
of the School of Information and Library
Science (SILS) have been awarded a second
$150,000 research gift from the Microsoft
Corporation. The gift is intended to continue
their research on how people annotate
structured information.
Annotations are notes added to text,
databases and other media–often included
in documents to help explain or comment
on specific information. The study will focus
on how people make annotations in various
structured electronic objects, with an eye
toward developing better tools to support
digital annotation.
The team of faculty and SILS graduate
students have been investigating how anno-tations
are made and add value to statistical
data sets, online library catalogs, blogs,
genetic databases, maps and musical scores.
“Our results to date demonstrate the
importance of annotations for both retrieval
and use of structured data and some ways
that annotation facilities migrate from pa-per-
based to electronic information systems,”
said Marchionini, principal investigator of
the study. “This new gift will allow the team
to extend its efforts to observe annotation in
action and expand our efforts to video data
annotation.”
The team will work with a selected
group of people who are making annotations
to structured data. Researchers will observe
the participants using software in their
workplaces, and then record how they make
notes to themselves. Those participating in
the study will be interviewed and observed
over a one-year period to identify strategies
and potential tools for annotating structured
data.
Possible new structured data environ-ments
the team will investigate include video
in digital form and Web-based forms such as
tax returns and other government forms.
“Our work is motivated by SILS’ long-standing
research on how people seek and
use information in electronic forms,” said
Marchionini. “Over time, we anticipate that
the framework developed from the study may
be used by software engineers to build more
productive structured data environments.”q
Board members recognized for
valued services
SILS wishes to recognize the following individuals whose terms expire in June 2006 for
their service to the School as members of its Board of Visitors. We are grateful for the years
of support and advisement they provided.
John Berry
Library Journal
New York, NY
Martin Dillon
Scarecrow Press
Dublin, OH
Les Johnson
North Coast Electric Co.
Bellevue, WA
David Goble named
vice-chair/chair elect
David Goble (MSLS
’94), dean of
libraries at Central
Piedmont Com-munity
College, has
accepted the role
of vice-chair/chair-elect
of the SILS’ Board of Visitors. He joins
Sarah Snow, the current chair, as they work
to advance the efforts and activities of the
Board. Goble’s role is a four-year commit-ment
with two years as vice-chair followed by
two years as chair.
“I am thrilled to be appointed to the
Board of Visitors and to continue serving
SILS,” Goble said. “This appointment is
particularly pleasing as I was introduced to
the Board of Visitors as the president-elect of
the Information and Library Science Student
Association at the board’s inaugural meeting
in 1993. Dr. Griffiths has brought a renewed
sense of energy and initiative to SILS and I
am honored to be a part of those efforts.”
Goble’s commitment to SILS has taken
many forms. He served two terms as treasurer
of the SILS Alumni Association and one term
as president. Prior to accepting the appoint-ment
as vice chair-chair elect of the Board of
Visitors, Goble served on the SILS Carolina
First Campaign Committee.q
Rebecca Lenzini
Denver, CO
Michael Markwith
TDNet, Inc.
West Chester, PA
Thomas McCarty
Cary, NC
Bernie Todd Smith
Rochester, NY
Katina Strauch
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC
Margaret Telfer
Photo Book Press
Minneapolis, MN
Jerry Thrasher
Cumberland County Library
Public Library and Info.Center
Fayetteville, NC
Jerry D. Campbell, a
member of SILS Board
of Visitors, and dean,
chief information
officer and univer-sity
librarian of the
University of Southern
California, was
quoted in the November 4, 2005 issue of The
Chronicle of Higher Education in an article
entitled, “Holocaust Stories Move to Academe.”
The USC has acquired the Shoah Foundation’s
repository of 52,000 testimonies of survivors
and other witnesses to the Holocaust. The
Shoah Foundation was founded by film direc-tor,
Stephen Spielberg. The preservation of
the archive is dedicated to scholarship in the
humanities and social sciences. q
Honorable Mention
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The School of Information
and Library Science at the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill is pleased
to recognize the following
donors for their kind
contributions.
Charles Gerrard Society
We would like to thank the
following individuals for
including the school in their
estate plans:
William H. Graves and
Vonna Graves
The following list reflects any
gifts and pledge payments
received between July 1, 2004
to June 30, 2005.
Legacy Society
$1 million and above
No donors in this category
Louis Round Wilson Society
$100,000 - $999,999
Dialog
Estate of Louis Round Wilson
Susan Grey Akers
Affiliates
$50,000 - $99,999
Estate of Phyllis T. Hall
Lucille K. Henderson
Affiliates
$10,000 - $49,999
William Octavius McCoy and
Sara Hart McCoy
OCLC Online Computer Library
Center, Inc.
Claude Henry Snow Jr. and
Sarah Turnbull Snow
Edward G. Holley
Affiliates
$5,000 - $9,999
No donors in this category.
Dean’s Club
$1,000 - $4,999
Anna Cooke Allison
Baker & Taylor
Jerry Dean Campbell
Dean S. Edmonds Foundation
Ruth Gambee
Jane Greenberg
Katsuko Tsurukawa Hotelling
Frederick G. Kilgour and
Eleanor M. Kilgour
Phebe Weissner Kirkham
Victor W. Marshall and
Joanne Gard Marshall
Duncan Franklin Smith
W. Gene Story
Lester Asheim Affiliates
$500 - $999
Anonymous
David Alfred Dodd and
Barbara Bayer Bertram
Mary L. Boone
Robert Marion Brooks Jr.
Robert E. Coley
David St. Clair Goble
Roy Parker Jr. and
Marie Smithwick Parker
Lennart Pearson
Mark Ramirez
W. Davenport Robertson and
Eliza S. Robertson
Mabel Marie Shaw
Donald Barnes White and
Madge White
Associates
$250 - $499
David Lawrence Bickford
Ruth Roden Boyer
Catherine Mary Carr
Evelyn Hope Daniel
J. Leland Dirks Jr.
Julia Adair Foster
Daniel Gottovi and
Karen Eckberg Gottovi
David Phillip Jensen
Jack Bevel Kester Jr. and
Tara Buck Kester
Timothy Wayne Maas and
Denise Jenny Chen
Barbara B. Moran
Joyce Lanier Ogburn
Clayton Samuel Owens
Nathan David Martin Robertson
and Michelle Martin Robertson
John Erwin Semonche and
Barbara Potts Semonche
Jonathan C. Tierce
John Ray Turbyfill Jr.
Supporters
$1 - $249
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Mary Gudac Aker
Jean Short Allen
Martha Anderson
Blanche Wysor Anderson
Angela Whitener Andrews
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Ann Jefferson Arcari
Ann Arrowood
Susan Weart Artiglia
Lance Richard Ashley and
Kimberly Hoover Ashley
Hampton Marshall Auld and
Noreen A. Cullen
Lara J. Bailey
Barbara Ann Baker
Angela Fullington Ballard
John Randolph Barden
Joan Nancy Bardez
Benjamin Franklin Barefoot
Lynne Westmoreland Barnette
Deborah Kay Barreau
Maureen Elise Barry
Stuart Mark Basefsky
Alica Lee Googe Bauer
Jane Roth Baugh
Jeffrey Beall
Jeanne Peery Becker
Janet Gibson Becker
Patricia Warren Becker
Jane Alice Beebe
Elizabeth Ann Beere
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Susan Ruth Percy Benning
Damien Mario Berahzer
John Francis Berube
David Roy Lent and
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Catherine L. Blake
Kristen Jane Boekelheide
Denise Norris Boldt
Bruce Ervin Bondo and
Janet Arey Bondo
Elizabeth Wilhelm Boothe
Sharron Ault Bortz
Tammy Marie Bowman
Emily Stewart Boyce
Mary Guy Boyd
Yvonne Boyer
Susan Cowilich Brackett
Doris Anne Bradley
Carol Jean Branscomb
Barbara Branson
Faith Joy Brautigam
Mary Reid Breheny
Lynda McPherson Bronaugh
Virginia Ligon Brooker
Jesse F. Brown
2004-2005 Honor Roll of Donors
Melinda Fae Brown
Alvin Maston Brown Jr. and
Nancy Gilliland Brown
William Ambrose Brown III
Isabel Masterton Brown
Kathleen Rae Brown
Dennis Luther Bruce and
Beatrice Sears Bruce
Christian Brun
Leigh Ann Bryant
Peter Robert Buch
Douglas A. Burkett
Laura Genevieve Burtle
Susan Heimer Burton
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Peggie Calhoun Byars
Robert Lowe Byrd
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Jennifer E. Calvo
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Sarah Bryant Capobianco
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Susan White Carroll
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The SILS Carolina First
Campaign Committee assists
the School with fundraising.
The Carolina First Campaign
is the comprehensive, multi-year
private fund-raising drive
supporting Carolina’s vision
to become the nation’s leading
public university. We would like
to acknowledge the commit-tee
members for their work on
behalf of the School.
Jerry Campbell
University of Southen California
Pasadena, CA
David Ferriero
New York Public Library
New York, NY
Barbara Moran
School of Information and
Library Science
Chapel Hill, NC
Fred Roper
Columbia, SC
Bernie Todd Smith
Rochester, NY
Duncan Smith
EBSCO Publishing
Durham, NC
Claude Snow*
EDS
Chapel Hill, NC
Sarah Snow*
Chapel Hill, NC
Margaret Telfer
Photo Book Press
Minneapolis, MN
*Denotes Campaign Co-Chairs
Carolina First
Campaign
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If we have inadvertently
omitted or incorrectly
listed your name, we
sincerely apologize and
ask that you make Shawn
Jackson aware at:
Shawn_Jackson@unc.edu
WISE program offers options for students
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New and unique online
course opportunities abound
for students pursuing degrees in
the School of Information and
Library Science. The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill is
among 13 partner schools around
the country that have turned to
Web-based Information Science
Education (WISE) to broaden op-portunities
for students at leading
library and information science
schools.
The WISE program allows
students at SILS to take online
courses at any of the other partici-pating
schools for credit towards
their UNC degrees. By participat-ing
in a WISE course, students
can choose from an extensive list
of distance education opportuni-ties.
Participants are given greater
flexibility in scheduling, and they
can work with other respected fac-ulty
around the country and have
access to research that otherwise
would be inaccessible.
“As a member of the WISE
Consortium,
SILS is
engaged in
an innova-tive
online
program
in distance
education
for library and information sci-ence
education,” said Dr. Claudia
Gollop, SILS associate dean. “SILS
students not only receive the
education they want when they
need it, they also benefit from the
diversity that is cultivated through
their increased access to students
and professors outside of Chapel
Hill.”
Some of SILS students have
enrolled in the new program and
are taking classes in the School of
Media Librarianship at Indiana
University at
Indianapolis.
The class
“the School
Library
Media
Center,” is
normally of-fered
at SILS, but was unavailable
last semester. With permission
from Professor Evelyn Daniel, the
students had the opportunity to
complete the course online.
“So far, the thing I have
liked best about the program is the
number of professional resources
Dr. Johnson (our professor) has
exposed us to online and in print
form,” SILS and WISE student
Emily Stitsinger said. “Most of
these resources are housed on
the class Web site, which will be
accessible to us even after our
coursework is completed.”
Now in its second year, part-ner
institutions of WISE include:
Indiana University-Indianapolis,
Rutgers University, Simmons Col-lege,
Syracuse University, Univer-sity
of British Columbia, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
University of Maryland, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
University of Pittsburgh, University
of Texas at Austin, University of
Western Ontario, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Victoria
University of Wellington. q
Dissertations and theses can
now be submitted online
Members of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations committee include,
from left to right: Brad Hemminger, Pat Mullin, Cheryl Thomas,
Brandon Bowman, Timothy Shearer. Not pictured, Kathy Thomas and
Elizabeth Evans.
The days of last minute trips to copy centers to print copies of master’s
theses and dissertations are drawing to a close. UNC’s Graduate School has
embraced a new initiative that allows students to submit their theses and
dissertations electronically.
In previous years, graduate
students submitting their disserta-tions
or theses to the Graduate
School were required to print
two copies (three for theses) on
expensive 100 percent cotton paper
in order to graduate. They had to
then hand-deliver their paperwork
to the office in Bynum Hall, where
staff would carefully review the
physical print copies for adherence
to format guidelines.
Beginning Spring 2006, this
procedure will change. The Gradu-ate
School will allow students to
submit their dissertations and
theses electronically. The School
plans to convert to completely
electronic submissions in two
years.
“Our goal was to make the
submission of theses and disserta-tions
as well as access to them
completely electronic, and in the
process to make things simpler
and less expensive,” said Dr. Brad
Hemminger, chairman of the
campus Electronic Theses and Dis-sertations
(ETD) committee, and
a faculty member of the School of
Information and Library Science.
Cheryl Thomas, Director of
Graduate Admission and Enroll-ment
Services at the Graduate
School, believes this will have a
positive impact on the Graduate
School which processes almost all
their theses and dissertations in
the days before semester gradua-tion
deadlines. “To save students
the money spent on copies, and
the time spent traveling to Chapel
Hill or waiting in line on the due
date will be very helpful to every-one
involved,” she said.
For more information on
ETDs at Carolina view the ETD
Web pages at: http://gradschool.
unc.edu/etd/index.html or contact
the Graduate School. q
• Continually plug the library and contribute
to efforts that will make your library
the centerpiece of the organization it is
operating in.
• Think about the library all of the time.
• Build partnerships with people who
surround your organization and people within
the organization to accomplish agendas.
• Communicate your message often and
let people know that you are committed to your
goals.
• Most importantly, believe that with
energy, vision and passion everything is
possible.
• Never give up.
The panel discussion, “Uniting Educa-tion
and Practice: Preparing Students for
Tomorrow’s Workforce,” featured Burger and
panelists Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of SILS
at UNC at Chapel Hill; Dr. Irene Owens, dean of
the School of Library and Information Science
at North Carolina Central University; Rebecca
Vargha, president-elect of the Special Librar-ies
Association and UNC SILS librarian; and
moderator Dr. David Carr, associate professor.
Panelists discussed preparation for enter-ing
the profession, noting that while new librar-ians
are comfortable with the technical skills
required by the job, it is in the “softer skills”
such as management, leadership and strategic
planning that they will need as well. Griffiths
emphasized that the workplace is an opportu-nity
to apply the theory that students gained in
school, and encouraged them to network with
colleagues, talk with practitioners and assess
organizational cultures. Burger highlighted
the necessity to know the organization that you
are working for and understand what leaders
Students welcome ALA president-elect
Leslie Burger, president-elect of the Ameri-can
Library Association (ALA), was welcomed to
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
as the keynote speaker at the “Today’s Leaders/
Tomorrow’s Libraries” lecture and panel discus-sion
in November. The event provided students,
faculty and staff of the School of Information
and Library Science the opportunity to discuss
how library schools prepare students for profes-sional
positions.
Burger’s keynote lecture entitled, “Trans-forming
Libraries for the 21st Century: A Call
to Action,” highlighted suggestions for current
and future information professionals and the
importance of membership and involvement in
ALA. She advised on establishing libraries that
reflect user interests and values, and creating a
culture that allows staff to use their knowledge,
skills and abilities to provide excellent service.
In addition, Burger listed the following
tips for new professionals entering the work-force:
• Don’t be afraid to take chances and be
creative.
• Think strategically. Have a personal
mission and respond to the needs of the
community.
• Step outside of the box (as much as
possible). Think critically about how
to fundamentally change the way
people view your library.
• Identify areas of excellence. Assess cur-rent
policies and work with staff to
make improvements.
• Create a team of people who share your
vision. Change happens best in a
collaborative way.
• Raise the profile of the library.
are looking for in a professional. All panelists
participated in the lively discussion.
The successful event gave future profes-sionals
the opportunity to hear the advice of
four leaders within library and information
science, who all emphasized the social roles
that libraries play and the importance of
research. q
The lending library created by SILS stu-dents
for a local homeless shelter is not only
a hit with the children and mothers living
there, the student project also captured the
attention of the Special Libraries Association
(SLA), an international organization that
represents information professionals.
SILS students Cindy McCracken,
Meg McGinn, Shauna Griffin and
Kristen Boekelheide were awarded first
place in Outstanding Leadership by a Student
Group for their work establishing the library
at Homestart, a homeless shelter for women
and children in Chapel Hill. They also took
the Certificate of Merit for third place in In-novative
Programming by a Student Group.
“The lending library project created by
SILS students of the student chapter of the
SLA is a stellar example of teamwork across
the state of North Carolina,” said Rebecca
Vargha, SILS librarian and student advisor.
“Our students are leading the way in making
a difference in the community. The new
lending library will open doors to many pos-sibilities
for families at Homestart.”q
Homeless shelter’s
lending library an
award-winning hit!
Student organiz-ers
poze with Leslie
Burger, president-elect
of the American
Library Association.
From left to right,
Michael Habib,
Valerie Gillispie,
Leslie Burger,Stefanie
Warlick, Amanda
Allgood and Rebecca
Pappert.
Photo by Brad Burrow
Students prepare and organize books
for the library. From left to right,
Meg McGinn, Kristen Boekelheide,
­Cindy
McCracken and Shauna Griffin.
What’s Happening with SILS Students
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SILS Commencement
The graduating class of 2005 joins school faculty for a portrait outside Manning Hall.
The School of Information and Library
Science celebrated the graduation of 98
students who received their doctoral, masters’
and bachelors’ degrees on May 15, 2005. The
commencement ceremony featured special
guest speaker Paul Horn, senior vice-president
and director of IBM Research, who presented,
“Beyond Technotoys and Hype: What Will
Really Succeed the Industrial Age.” He spoke
about advancements in technology, the most
significant changes ahead of us, and what
those changes will likely mean for the genera-tion
inheriting and shaping them.
Several awards were presented during the
ceremony including the Outstanding Teacher
of the Year Award, presented to Dr. Jerry D.
Saye, and the Distinguished Alumni Award re-ceived
by Larry Alford. The Dean’s Achievement
Awards were presented to Rebecca Kemp and
Susan Teague Rector by Drs. Stephanie Haas
and Robert Losee. Christie Lynne McDaniel
and Marisa Ramirez received the Outstanding
Service to the School Awards from Amy Gresko,
current president, SILS Alumni Association.
Spring 2005 SILS Graduates
Doctor of Philosophy
James Lyon Dominick
Mark Anthony Russo
Master of Science in
Information Science
Clifton Aaron Barnett
Damien Mario Berahzer
Hugh Anthony Cayless
Anita M.C. Crescenzi
Dragomir V. Dimitrov
April Lannae Edlin
Larry Dean Farrell
Keith Anderson Gatlin III
Marie Remig Kennedy
Anne Marie LeBel
Cynthia S. McCracken
Naini Harendra Mistry
Mahesh Pozhickal
Madanamohanan
Chang Su
Tammy Lynn Wells-Angerer
Jesse D. Wilbur
Kelly Johnson Wilkie
Master of Science in
Library Science
Anna Elise Allison
John Wilson Atkinson
Maureen Elise Barry
Nicholas Kuster Bellows
Ewald Heinz Uwe Beltz
Rita Bhattacharyya
Ian Craig Breaden
Kimberly Jo Campbell
Deborah Jean Carlos
Robin S.D. Chen
Mara E. Dabrishus
April Dawn Disque
Lewis Robert Dorman, IV
Alexandra Elizabeth Duda
Nelson Downing Eubanks
Sarah E. Falls
Alison Mary Foley
Laura Hocutt Fox
Mary Elizabeth Gabehart
Emily Jill Glenn
Larisa Vitaly Good
Christine Scoggins Granquist
Tiffany Amber Hayes
Krisztian Horvath
Deborah Williams Joyner
Jessica Freya Kem
Anna Irene Krampl
Alexandra Bennett Leinaweaver
Corinne Jean Mahoney
Sarah Anne Matusz
Meg Joanne McGinn
Christine Russell Mitchell
Margarite Annette Nathe
Alida Marie Pask
Scott Rien Phinney
Martha Ingrid Preddie
Marisa Lyn Ramirez
Abigail Joan Rovner
Amanda Jones Sherriff
Anne Helen Skilton
Michelle Alicia Stover
Susan Rebecca Sylvester
Jessica Anne Tyree
Alan Ethan Unsworth
John Nielson Vickery
Adam Paul Webb
Jane Louise Webster
Emily M. Weiss
James Thomas Wellman
Nora Ellen Wikoff
Kristen Elizabeth Wilson
Bachelor of Science
in Information
Science
Anecia Dishel Allen
Christopher Bryan Bar-tholomew
Stephan Christopher Bayer
Anthony Brent Caison
Elizabeth Alana Carlton
Justin Robert Changler
Christina Ngozi Ekeleme
Monte Devonta Evans
Krystal Alexis FOxx
Tammy Charlene Greene
Dana Ashley Hafertepen
Terrance Andreas Hairston
Ryan Patrick Hanna
Eric Joseph Hoffman
John Eric Howie, Jr.
Anita Mark Jotwani
Brian Edward Kubis
Celine Ting Ma
Christine Lynne McDaniel
Manisha R. Patel
Peter Cary Robson
Aaron D. Shah
Chia-Ling Tsai
Lorilee-Maye Woods
Yuan S. Yue
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Dr. Jerry D. Saye received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the School
of Information and Library Science. The award recognizes excellence in teaching,
commitment to students and innovation and effectiveness in teaching.
A member of the SILS faculty since 1985, Dr. Saye specializes in organization of
information, history of books and libraries, cataloging and classification, abstracting
and indexing, technical services and metadata. A respected scholar and teacher, he
routinely receives rave reviews from both students and peers.
“Dr. Saye has been one of the most personable, engaging and enthusiastic
professors with whom I have ever had the opportunity to interact,” wrote one student.
“He consistently shows his dedication to teaching in the field of library science,
teaching multiple courses most semesters to ensure that students have ample
opportunities to take courses relevant to their fields.”
Dr. Saye’s “commitment, dedication and enthusiasm are unquestionable and
unwavering,” said Deborah Barreau, who received the award in 2004. “It is a tribute to
his teaching excellence that he has been nominated for this award so often and is, in
fact, a past recipient.” q
Dr. Jerry D. Saye receives the SILS Outstanding
Teaching Award from Dr. Deborah Barreau,last
year’s recipient.
Dr. Jerry D. Saye receives Outstanding Teaching Award
Larry Alford selected for Distinguished Alumni Award
The School of Information and Library Science
Alumni Association selected Larry Alford to receive the 2005
Distinguished Alumni Award. The award was presented at the
school’s commencement ceremony on May 15, 2005.
Alford (MSLS ’77) was the former deputy university
librarian at UNC at Chapel Hill before accepting the position
of vice provost for libraries and university librarian at Temple
University.
Alford served at UNC for 30 years, starting as a circulation librarian in the 1970s.
He helped define standards for using barcodes to circulate materials with the online
catalog development project. Later, Alford served as project manager for the construction
of Davis Library and the renovation of Wilson Library. Among his many accomplish-ments,
he also oversaw the renovation of the Robert B. House Undergraduate Library.
“We are proud to present this award to Larry, who is nationally recognized as a
leader in the field of library science,” said Mary Horton, immediate past president
of the SILS Alumni Association. q
Alumni Association president, Amy
Gresko, presents the awards for
Outstanding Service to the School to
Marisa Ramirez (pictured left) and to
Christie Lynne McDaniel (above).
Paul Horn, senior vice-president and
director of IBM Research, tips his Tar
Heel cap to the class of 2005 during
his commencement address.
Master’s student
Chelcy Boyer
was awarded the
John F. Kennedy
Library Foundation
Research Grant
to study class and political issues of
presidential libraries. Her findings
are the basis of her master’s thesis.
Abe Crystal,
doctoral
student at
SILS received
the “Doctoral
Students to
ALISE Award.” He is one of only two
students selected to receive the com-petitive
award for the international
conference which provides for lodg-ing
and complimentary registration
for the ALISE annual conference.
Meredith R.
Evans, a Ph.D.
student, is the
new curator
of Printed
Materials in
the Archives & Special Collections
department of Robert W. Woodruff
Library in the Atlanta University
Center.
A program to
fund training
for librarians
in environ-mental
bioin-formatics
has
been created through the recently
established Carolina Environmental
Bioinformatics Research Center
(CEBRC). The first fellowship from
the program was awarded to Lara
Handler, a first year master’s
student in library science at SILS.
Emily Horner recently saw her
article, “Kamishibai as Propagan-da
in Wartime Japan,” published
in the prestigious Storytelling,
Self, Society: an interdisciplinary
journal of storytelling studies.
SILS masters’ students, Monica
McCormick and Phil Binkows-ki
were awarded the Elfreda
Chatman Award by SILS Alumni
Association. McCorkmick won for
her paper “Institutional Repositories
and Author Self-Archiving: Does
Knowledge Matter?” and Binkowski
was awarded for “Tag-based book-marks—
Better or Worse?”
Rebecca Miller, a master’s
student at SILS, received the Baker
Taylor Scholarship Grant for 2006.
This award will allow Miller to
attend a two-week seminar at Oxford
University in England this summer.
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The following Ph.D. students have
successfully defended their disserta-tions:
Ron Bergquist, Meredith
Evans, Bin Li, Andrew May,
Megan Oakleaf and Meng
Yang. Congratulations!
Ph.D. student, Carol Perryman
received a first place award for her
paper “Information Behaviors in
an Online Smoking Cessation Com-munity”
at the 2005 MLA Annual
meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
Since arriving at SILS last year, Per-ryman
has been working with Duke
and UNC Health Services Libraries
on projects related to consumer
health information and evidence
based librarianship.
Master’s students Ashley Brown,
Sally Quiroz, and Cassidy Sug-imoto
have been been inducted
into the Frank Porter Graham Honor
Society that recognizes outstanding
service provided to the university
and community by graduate and
professional students enrolled at
UNC at Chapel Hill.
Students win interactionary design competition
Four SILS students were
awarded for their on-the-spot
creativity, as they designed a DVD
remote control unit usable for
arthritic and farsighted users.
Anuj Sharma, Sam
Kome, Sayan Chakraborty
and Ric Simmons represented
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill as they competed
against a team from the North
Carolina State University during
the World Usability Day Interac-tionary
Design Competition. The
teams were not given the task
beforehand and had only 20 min-utes
to create their prototype. Five
judges, including SILS Professor
Dr. Gary Marchionini, evaluated
the projects based on teamwork,
process, final design and user
perspective.
“The Interactionary was
great fun and I think we all
learned a lot from the judges,”
said Kome. “The competition is
more about process than product
- in 20 minutes no one can com-plete
a radical new design. The
team worked well together, used
user-centered design principles
and had lots of practice.”
World Usability Day is held
annually in more than 70 cities
in 30 countries to promote easy-to-
use technology. Its goal is to
emphasize the value of usability
engineering, user-centered design
and individual user’s responsibil-ity
to ask for things to work better.
This year, activities that high-lighted
the importance of these
goals focusing on e-government,
e-commerce and other com-mercial
applications, took place
around the world on Nov. 3.
“Most people don’t real-ize
that there are schools and
companies dedicated to making
things easier to use,” said Abe
Crystal, SILS doctoral student and
Usability Day attendee. “World
Usability Day will help usability
specialists and researchers gain
the prominence they need to really
make a difference.”
Locally, activities were hosted
by the Triangle User Experience
Group and were held at MCNC,
a non-profit organization that is
committed to advancing educa-tion,
innovation and economic
development throughout North
Carolina by delivering next-gen-eration
information technology
services. q
Interactionary Design Team
from left: Anuj Sharma, Sam
Kome, Sayan Chakraborty and
Ric Simmons
Photo by Cindy McCracken
Born in Beirut in 1968, Lokman Meho’s
journey to assistant professor has been a long
one, with exploration and obstacles along
the way. Meho, who currently works for the
School of Library and Information Science at
Indiana University, was more fortunate than
his parents. He was able to attend public
school and ultimately receive a full scholar-ship
to attend the American University of
Beirut where in 1991 he earned a bachelor’s
degree in Political Science.
His interest in books began at an
early age, but it was a comment he read that
inspired Meho’s interest in libraries and re-search.
After reading that literature on Kurds
was scarce, Meho “became curious whether
this was a fact or just a lack of knowledge on
the part of the author,” he said. This curiosity
led Meho to pursue a job at the UAB’s library
(Jafet) where he gained experience in retriev-ing,
filtering and organizing information.
“Recognizing the significance and value of
access to information in research, I decided
to compile and publish as many annotated
bibliographies on Kurds and Kurdistan as
possible,” Meho said.
The librarians at Jafet encouraged Meho
to pursue a Master’s in Library Science in the
U.S. and after attempts to secure funding on
his own, his father decided to sell his car to
give Meho the opportunity to study abroad.
Through this generous sacrifice, Meho began
his U.S. studies with a MLS degree from North
Carolina Central University. He ended up in
the Ph.D. program at UNC’s School of Infor-mation
and Library Science with assistance
from his financial sponsor and mentor, NCCU
Assistant Dean Duane Bogenschneider. While
studying in Chapel Hill, Meho continued
to teach and research with the support and
encouragement of SILS faculty. He success-
Profile: Dr. Lokman Meho
Alumni News
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fully defended his dissertation and received his
Ph.D. in November 2001.
Since he began researching, Meho
has remained dedicated to his initial goals,
publishing three bibliographies, which contain
more than 800 books and articles about Kurds
and Kurdistan. In addition, Meho’s interest in
issues of libraries and censorship in the Arab
world have led to his publication of two other
annotated bibliographies.
Meho’s accomplishments have not gone
unnoticed. He recently won the OCLC/ALISE
2006 Library and Information Science Re-search
Grant with fellow SILS graduate, Kiduk
Yang (MSLS ’02). They were awarded for
their project “Citation Analysis of Library and
Information Science Faculty Publications: ISI
Databases and Beyond,” Meho’s first research
grant.
“Our ultimate goal is to build a system
that will help scholars and librarians world-wide
conduct a new line of bibliometrics
research in much more efficient and effective
ways,” Meho said. “The system will signifi-cantly
cut short the time required to collect
citation data from multiple sources while at
the same time help conduct more rigorous and
advanced citation analysis studies.”
Meho was also the recipient of ALISE’s
2005 Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper
competition with Kristina Spurgin (current
SILS Ph.D. student) for their paper, “Ranking
the Research Productivity of LIS Faculty and
Schools: An Evaluation of Data Sources and
Research Methods.” He was recognized as an
outstanding teacher with the 2006 Trustees
Award from SLIS at Indiana University, which
is given to faculty with outstanding commit-ment
to student development.
Colleagues note that Meho’s door is
always open; he has even arranged to meet and
work with students completing online search
projects on weekends. In course evaluations
students consistently give Meho high marks for
enthusiasm and availability. They comment on
his willingness to seek them out in the library
or laboratory to see how their work is progress-ing.
This commitment to seeing education
as part of the whole of life is also evident in
his establishing an informal listserv for SLIS
students to communicate about professional
and social matters. q
Craig Breaden, a 2005 master’s
graduate from SILS, has been awarded the
Theodore Calvin Pease Award by the Society
of American Archivists.
Recognized for his outstanding
achievement in writing as a student of
archival administration, Breaden’s paper
“Sound Practices: Online Audio Exhibits
and the Cultural Heritage Archive” won for
its innovation, scholarship, pertinence and
clarity. Breaden is one of five SILS alumni
that have won the Pease Award since its
inception in 1997.
“The paper examines how cultural
heritage archives deliver, or ‘exhibit’ audio
on the Web,” Breaden noted. “In order to
answer some basic questions about the
archives, I created a matrix to use as a
measuring tool to profile 25 Web sites.”
“It makes me want to write better,”
Breaden said. “Receiving the award in front
of my peers in New Orleans last month was
exciting, and having the paper published in
the American Archivist next year is a great
reward.”
Since winning the award, Breaden has
gone on to complete a second exhibition
Web site for the Southern Folklife Collec-tion
entitled “Fiddler’s Grove Retrospective,
1970-2000,” which followed his December
launch of “Hillbilly Music: Source and
Symbol.” Breaden is currently working at
North Carolina State University on a photo
digitization project.
“Winning has focused my plans and
reminded me of my original goal when I
started at SILS. I am now more commit-ted
to working with archival media and
enabling users to access audio and video,”
Breaden acknowledged. q
Graduate recognized for
superior writing
Since the last edition of the newsletter, the SILS Alumni Association Board
has stayed quite busy. May’s commencement ceremony marked the end of
another successful academic year. SILSAA was pleased to present Larry Alford
with a Distinguished Alumni award. Larry is currently the vice provost for librar-ies
and university librarian at Samuel Paley Library. We also presented Christie
McDaniel and Marisa Ramirez with Outstanding Service to the School awards.
As always, we hosted a reception with cake and punch after the ceremony.
Over the summer we held elections for the offices of secretary and vice
president/president-elect. Kelley Lawton and Andy Ingham, respectively, had
served their terms and we thank them for their hard work over the past few
years. We welcomed new secretary Charles Cobine and the new vice president
Mark Sanders at our annual fall planning retreat. They have been wonderful
additions to the Board.
During the first week of classes last fall, SILSAA hosted its traditional New Student Reception in
Manning Hall. Despite the hot and humid weather, we had an overwhelmingly high turnout. A fine
time was had by all, and we were pleased to award two graduate and one undergraduate students with
Elfreda Chatman Book Awards, thanks to your generous contributions.
We participated in the planning for December graduation ceremonies and are beginning to
discuss ideas for an alumni reunion sometime during the next academic year – stay tuned! In order
to help us keep you informed of our activities, I encourage you to verify your subscription to the sils-alumni
listserv, and join if you are not a current subscriber. The traffic is extremely light and the list
provides an invaluable communication tool. Visit http://listserv.unc.edu/ select “search for lists” on
the right-hand side of the screen and search for “sils” or “alumni” (a more directed search, unfortu-nately,
is not possible). Find the “sils-alumni” list in the retrieval set and chose to visit or subscribe to
the list. You may also keep up with our activities by visiting our Web site at:
http://ils.unc.edu/alumni/ q
Alumni board stays busy with activities SILS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD 2005-06
Amy Gresko, president
greskoa@meredith.edu
Mary Horton,
immediate past president
mhorton@wfu.edu
Mark Sanders, vice president/
president-elect
sandersm@mail.ecu.edu
Julie Harris, treasurer
jharris@library.dcr.state.nc.us
Charles Cobine, secretary
cobine@email.unc.edu
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
José-Marie Griffiths, dean
Shawn Jackson,
director of development
Rosalyn Metz,
ILSSA student representative
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Alumni News
President’s
Message
By Amy Gresko
Alumni Association
Mary Boone
(MSLS ’73),
SILS alumna
and recipient of
the 2003 SILS’
Distinguished
Alumni Award,
has been named
North Carolina’s
state librarian.
Secretary Lisbeth C. Evans of the North
Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
announced the appointment which went into
effect November 15, 2005.
A native of North Carolina, Boone was
director of the Chapel Hill Public Library from
1978 to 1985 and was a founding member of
the North Carolina Public Library Directors
Association. Since 1985 she has been a foreign
service library/information resource officer with
the United States Information Agency and the
U.S. Department of State, with service in Asia,
the Middle East, Europe, and Washington,
DC. Her assignments included serving as the
director of the Department of State’s extensive
international library program from 1999 to
2002, and overseeing the planning and estab-lishment
of the Jefferson Information Center,
a new Department of State initiative incorpo-rating
its existing library and a new research
service, from 2002 to 2005.
“We’re delighted that one of our distin-guished
alums is returning to North Carolina
at this critical time when libraries are facing
many challenging issues,” said Dr. José-Marie
Griffiths, dean, School of Information and
Library Science. “We welcome Mary back to
North Carolina and wish her the best with her
new appointment.” q
Mary Boone named North Carolina’s State Librarian
State Representative Alice Bordsen
(MSLS ’83), spoke with students in
Ron Bergquist’s “Seminar in Public
Libraries” class on Monday, February
20. In the photo above, Representa-tive
Bordsen answers questions from
MSLS student Halley Hall.
N.C. State Representative
visits with SILS students
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Elise Allison (MSLS ’05) has
won the Gene Williams award
from the Society of North Carolina
Archivists for the best paper on an
archival topic written for a gradu-ate-
level course.
Aletha Andrew (MSLS ’00)
and Sukey Stephens Harper
(MSLS ’00) of the Seymour
Johnson Air Force Base Library in
Goldsboro, N.C., are celebrating
their library’s selection as the best
library program in the United
States Air Force. Dr. Andrew is
the reference librarian at the base
library, and Ms. Stephens Harper
is the director there. The base
library supports the missions of
the 4th Fighter Wing by providing
mission-essential information,
academic support and program-ming
enhancing the quality of life
for Airmen and their families.
Stuart Basefsky (MSLS ’79) was
awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s
Award for Excellence in Librarian-ship
for 2005. Basefsky is an infor-mation
specialist and lecturer at
the Martin P. Catherwood Library,
School of Industrial & Labor Rela-tions
(ILR), Cornell University and
director of the IWS News Bureau of
the Institute for Workplace Studies
(IWS) in the New York City Office
of the ILR School.
Kristen Bullard (MSLS ’03)
became the instructional services
coordinator at the University of Ten-nessee,
Knoxville on July 1. She was
previously the instruction librarian
at the University of Houston.
Greg Crawford (MSLS ’84) has
been promoted to librarian at the
Pennsylvania State University and
on July 1 was named director of
the Penn State Harrisburg Library.
Loudres Cueva Chacon (MSIS
’05) was recently hired as a user
interface designer at Lulu.com.
Sue Erickson (MSLS ’00) was
named acting head of Reference
for the Central Library at Van-derbilt
University. Sue has been
bibliographer for Anthropology &
Society at the school for five years.
Mary Gabe-hart
(MSLS ’05)
has received the
Pratt-Severn Best
Student Research
Paper Award
offered by the American Society of
Information Science and Technol-ogy
(ASIS&T). The award was
presented in Charlotte, N.C. during
the awards ceremony of the annual
international conference. Gabehart
also presented her paper, which is
titled, “An analysis of citations to
retracted articles in the scientific
literature.”
Linda Greenblatt Esterling
(MSLS ’75) is a market research
analyst for the N.C. Small Business
and Technology Development
Center and lives in Carrboro, N.C.
Robin Hollingsworth Wil-liford
(MSLS ’99) and husband
Joey welcomed their first child,
Charles William, on Sunday,
February 13, 2005. Robin has
resigned from her position as
director of the Sampson County
Public Library System to become a
stay-at-home mom to Charlie.
Reference librarian Gerald
Holmes (MSLS ’85) received the
REMCO (Round-table
for Ethnic and
Minority Concerns)
Roadbuilders Award
at the recent North
Carolina Library
Association meet-ing.
The award
recognizes ethnic
minority librarians who have
served as pioneers in librarianship
and as positive role models.
Anthony Hughes (MISIS ’03)
and Barbara Wildemuth have
published a chapter “Perspectives
in the Tasks in which Informa-tion
Behaviors Are Embedded” in
the ASIS&T monograph: Theories
of Information Behavior. The
article covers important research
and theories underlying informa-tion
tasks and utilizes a prestigious
list of contributers.
An article based on Mariam
Intrator’s (MSLS ’03) award-winning
master’s paper “The
Theresienstadt Ghetto Central
Library, Books and Reading: Intel-lectual
Resistance and Escape dur-ing
the Holocaust,” was published
in the 2005 Year Book of the Leo
Baeck Institute. This work has
also led to publication in Libri,
and to a conference presentation
in Israel this past September.
Miriam is now looking at doctoral
programs.
Lynn Jacobson (MSLS ’98) has
been promoted to head of catalog-ing
at the Jacksonville Public
Library, Jacksonville, Fla.
Wooseob Jeong (MSLS ’97)
received a Diversity Grant of
$2500 from the American Library
Association’s Office for Diversity.
Jeong won the award for his re-search
with the blind and visually
impaired, with the goal of increas-ing
their access to library services
and resources, and the Web.
Caroline Keizer (MSLS ’98)
was named supervising cataloger
of the North Carolina Collection at
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Kristen Krause
McDonough (MSLS
’70) is the Robert and
Joyce Menschel director
of the New York Public
Library Science, Industry
and Business Library (SIBL).
The Checkpoint Charlie Founda-tion,
which fosters collaboration
between American and German
institutions, named McDonough
recipient of the first John Jacob
Astor Award for “exceptional
contribution to the transatlantic
transfer of information. Her recent
article, “Hosting strengths ties at
home and abroad,” International
Leads (September 2005) profiles
representative examples of SIBL’s
global reach.
Brian Kubis (BSIS ’05), who
double majored in information
science and economics, has begun
work at SunTrust Bank in the
Research Triangle Area as a com-mercial
banking associate.
Leslie Madden (MSLS ’96),
husband Bill and daughter
Claudia, welcomed Julian Paul
on Easter Sunday, April 11, 2004.
Leslie is a reference librarian at the
Georgia Institute of Technology.
Corinne Mahoney (MSLS ’05)
received an award from the Special
Libraries Association’s Environ-mental
Resources Management
Division for her student paper
“Doing More With Less and Liking
It.” In it Mahoney discussed the
major challenges facing environ-mental
libraries. She focused on
the positive impact of these chal-lenges,
which has forced librarians
to be more creative
with fewer resources.
Dr. Robert Martin
(Ph.D. ’88) has been
appointed Lillian
Bradshaw Endowed
Photo by Barry Miller
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Alumni News
Jo Powers (MSLS ’04) is the as-sistant
manager of cataloging and
technical services at Talbot County
Library in Easton, Md.
A revision of Joe Ripp’s (MSLS
’03) master’s paper on Lord of
the Rings, “Middle America Meets
Middle Earth,” has been published
in Book History, the annual pub-lication
of the Society of Author-ship,
Reading and Publishing.
Chuck Thomas (MSLS ’96)
was appointed assistant director
for Integrated Digital Services &
Scholarly Communication at the
Florida State University Libraries.
Rose Timmons Dawson
(MSLS ’85) is the new deputy
director of the Alexandria Library
system in Alexandria, Va. She for-merly
worked for the D.C. Public
Chair of Library Science at Texas
Woman’s University. Martin was
nominated in 2001, by Presi-dent
George W. Bush as the first
librarian director of the National
Institute of Museum and Library
Services. IMLS is a federal grant-making
agency dedicated to help-ing
the nation’s 15,000 museums
and 122,000 libraries serve their
communities.
Elizabeth G. McClenney (MSLS
’89) is the new associate director for
Technology and Access Services at
Robert W. Woodruff Library in the
Atlanta University Center.
“Ranking the Research Productiv-ity
of Library and Information
Science Faculty and Schools: An
Evaluation of Data Sources and
Research Methods” a paper by
Lokman Meho (Ph.D. ’01) and
Ph.D. student Kristina Spur-gin,
was published in the April
issue of the Journal of American
Society for Information Science
and Technology.
Xiangming Mu (Ph.D. ’04)
received grant support for his re-search
project “Interactive Virtual
Reference: Model, System, and Pi-lot
User Study” from the Institute
of Museum and Library Services.
The study will include developing
an interactive virtual reference
model in hopes of increasing
patron usage of VR service and
improving library patrons’ search
strategy formulation.
Joyce Ogburn (MSLS ’82) be-came
the director of the J. Willard
Marriott Library at the University
of Utah on September 1.
The NCSU Libraries has appointed
Darby C. Orcutt as senior
collection manager for Humani-ties
and Social Sciences, effective
March 1, 2006. Orcutt will lead
the NCSU Libraries’ collection
programs in all humanities
and social sciences disciplines,
with responsibility for planning,
policy development, and budget
management.
Irene Owens (Ph.D. ’95) was
appointed dean of the School of Li-brary
and Information Science at
North Carolina Central University.
Dr. Owens served at the University
of Texas at Austin Graduate School
of Information for ten years. She is
the former head librarian at How-ard
University School of Divinity.
Kimberly Poe Shelton (MSLS
’99) gave birth to her son Alex-ander
Chase Shelton on October
6, 2005.
Library
as their
coordinator
of Commu-nity
Youth
Services.
K.T. Vaughan (MSLS ’01) has
a new appointment as a clinical
assistant professor in the UNC at
Chapel Hill’s School of Pharmacy
in addition to her primary posi-tion
as the librarian for Bioinfor-matics
& Pharmacy at the UNC
Health Sciences Library. K.T. also
received the 2005 James M. Cretsos
Leadership
Award from
ASIST, and
is expecting
publica-tion
of her
second book,
Building Bridges: Collaboration
Within and Beyond the Academic
Library (with Anne Langley and
Teddy Gray of Duke).
Linwood Webster (MSLS ’02)
was awarded the 2005 Minor
Mickel-Shaw Excellence in Advis-ing
Award, which recognizes excel-lence
in advising and is presented
annually to advisors in Carolina’s
Academic Advising Programs in
the College of Arts and Sciences
and the General College.
Emily Weiss (MSLS ’05) has
joined Connecticut’s Darien
Library as the first Louise
Parker Berry fellow. Her fellowship
­includes
working two years with
library director Louise Berry as her
mentor on a series of projects.
Kiduk Yang (MSLS ’02) and
Lokman Meho (Ph.D. ’01)
received the OCLC/ALISE 2006
Library and Information Science
Research Award. They were
awarded for their project “Citation
Analysis of Library and Informa-tion
Science Faculty Publications:
ISI Databases and Beyond.”
Meng Yang
(Ph.D. ’05) is currently working at
IBM Lotus
Software
Group, as
a usability
specialist.
Meng plans
on staying
in the
Research Triangle Park area until
the end of the year and then plans
on moving to an IBM branch in
the Boston area.
Jessica Zellers (MSLS ’05) and
Rita Bhattacharyya (MSLS
’05) have both been hired at the
Blackwater Regional Library
in Courtland, Va. Zellers is the
customer services coordinator and
Bhattacharyya serves as manager
of the Smithfield branch.
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Former School of Information and Library
Science professor and well-known scholar,
Haynes McMullen, 90, died on Aug. 30 at
Houston Medical Center. McMullen was an
avid researcher who collected a vast database of
information about pre-1876 libraries during his
40-year professorship with the School of Infor-mation
and Library Science at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A productive scholar long after he retired in 1985 at the age
of 70, McMullen’s last book, American Libraries before 1876, was
published in 2001. McMullen was one of the most respected library
historians in the profession and he will be remembered by SILS staff
for his welcoming attitude.
“I never saw him without a smile on his face,” SILS Professor
and former Dean Barbara Moran, noted. “Haynes was a wonderful
scholar and a true gentleman. All of the faculty and students loved
him.”
The research that McMullen complied while working at SILS
has now been made available online through Princeton Univer-sity.
It has been described by the American Libraries Association
as a “rich source of
material…that anybody
interested in the history of
public libraries certainly
needs to be aware of.”
McMullen’s career
included a 20-year faculty
position at Indiana Uni-versity’s
Library School,
before he moved to UNC.
He was also formerly the
head librarian at what
is now James Madison
University.
Born in Tarkio, Mo., McMullen received his undergraduate
education at Centre College in Danville, Ky., his Master’s of Science
in Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
and his doctoral degree in Library Science at The University of
Chicago, Ill.
McMullen is survived by his wife, Sun Hauk McMullen of Cen-terville,
Ga.; a son, Joel McMullen of Centerville, Ga.; a step-daugh-ter,
Sun Ae Arinaga of Honolulu, Hi; a sister, Catherine G. Craig of
Modena, N.Y.; a brother, Bryce McMullen of Baltimore, Md.; three
grandchildren and one great-grand child. q
Former SILS Professor Dies
after Long Scholarly Career
IN
MEMORIAM
Former director at UNC Chapel Hill’s Music Library from 1984-1997,
Ida M. Reed, passed away on Oct. 9, 2005 after a 13 year battle
with cancer. She was 63. Reed taught the music librarianship course
at SILS for many years before retiring and has been described as a
wonderful and caring colleague. Reed’s scholarship was also far-reaching.
In 1997, she edited the fifth edition of “Music Reference
and Research Materials,” which has become a prominent work in
the field. Reed was known for her love of books, quilting and baking.
She is survived by her brothers, George McAliley, Charley McAliley and
Sammy Army of North Carolina.
Known to everyone at SILS as Miss Freeman, former assistant to
the dean and lecturer Jean Freeman died peacefully on October
27 at Springmoor Retirement Community. She was 93 years old.
Freeman had degrees from both UNC Greensboro and Chapel Hill.
She made numerous contributions to the Library School and will
be remembered for her dedication to the profession and continued
involvement with the school even after her retirement in the late
1970s. Freeman is survived by nephew, Richard Allen Freeman Jr. of
Raleigh; nieces Elizabeth Warner Freeman Gephart of Raleigh, and
Emily Carson Freeman of Emerald Isle; three great nieces; eight great
nephews; four great-great nieces and eight great-great nephews.
Sam W. Hitt, librarian emeritus at UNC Chapel Hill’s Health
Sciences Library, died at home on Dec. 11, 2005. He was 84. Hitt
was a leader in the health sciences profession, serving in Texas and
Connecticut before coming to Chapel Hill as library director from
1976-1986. He served on the Medical Library Association’s (MLA)
Board of Directors from 1970-1976 and was given highest honors
for his expansion of library buildings, collections and services with
MLA’s Marcia Noyes Award in 1982. He grew up in Arkansas, served
in WWII and attended school at the University of Missouri and Emory
University. He is survived by his four children and their families, a
brother and a sister. Hitt’s wife Harriett predeceased him.
Jessica Graham Dalton (BSLS ’48) June 20, 2005
Dixie Lou Lyons Fisher (CLIB ’50) Oct. 31, 2005
Sarah Fore Gaines (MSLS ’83) Dec. 5, 2005
Priscilla Griffey Harpham (BSLS’44) Sept. 4, 2005
Lesley Brown Levine (MSLS ’68) Oct. 16, 2005
Lucy Elizabeth McDavid (MSLS ’62) Nov. 29, 2005
Adriana Pannevis Orr (MSLS ’58) Ma 24, 2005
Death notices are provided by the UNC at Chapel Hill General Alumni
Association (GAA). Dates in parentheses indicate class year. Notify the GAA
Records Department with death announcements at PO Box 660; Chapel
Hill, NC 27514.
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of SILS and the
founding chair of
the Louis Round
Wilson Academy.
“We understand
that those who pursue careers in this increasingly
important profession require an education that
engenders responsibility for all knowledge that
influences change.”
Her vision of the 21st and 22nd century
knowledge professional resembles a cross between
the Pope’s most trusted advisor and a Jedi
master—with every corporate, government,
academic and scientific leader relying on this
individual to ensure that the information on which
critical decisions are based is accurate, complete,
unbiased and relevant.
“Without trusted guides through the rapidly
accumulating volume of recorded knowledge
Citizens around
the world are becoming
more aware that they
often need a trusted
guide to help sort and
substantiate the infor-mation
they require.
Faculty members at the
School of Information
and Library Science
(SILS) agree that
leading institutions are
obliged to review and
design anew roles and
models for Knowledge Pro-fessionals
who will assume
larger and more pivotal roles in the 21st Century.
To consider and address topics ranging from
knowledge, trust, ethics and stewardship that
impact library and information science professions,
a newly formed academy of world leaders met in
Chapel Hill, N.C. on Oct. 6 and 7.
The Louis Round Wilson Academy has been
convened by the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library
Science as global thought leaders and information
revolutionaries who serve as a modern-day council
of elders.
Members were selected for their broad range
of experiences and insightful outlooks that are
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Inside this Issue
Dean’s Message........................................ 2
Faculty News.............................................. 8
Honor Roll of Donors............................13
Student News...........................................18
Alumni News............................................23
$1.5 million bequest to benefit SILS technology
Dr. William H. and Vonna K. Graves have pledged a gift of $1.5
million to the School of Information and Library Science (SILS). The
bequest, SILS’ largest to date, is intended to enhance the School’s
technology programs and services. See page 3.
Louis Round Wilson Academy Formed
Inaugural meeting held in Chapel Hill
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION
AND LIBRARY SCIENCE
focused on collecting, sharing and preserving the
record of human accomplishment, activity and
imagination. They are charged with addressing a
future of constant change in which new knowledge
professionals—experts who can help locate, evalu-ate
and guide users to credible, comprehensive
information that is relevant and reliable—must
anticipate and understand the information needs
of tomorrow’s society.
The founding members of the Academy
include presidents and chief executive officers of
information technology organizations, historians,
authors, university scholars and librarians and
information scientists from around the world.
“Our faculty, and
the faculty of every
leading University
in the world, real-izes
that the role of
the 21st and 22nd
century knowledge
professional must be
carefully shaped,”
said Dr. José-Marie
Griffiths, dean
Members of the Louis Round Wilson Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School
of Information and Library Science faculty following the formal induction ceremony in the rotunda of
the Rare Books Room of the Louis Round Wilson Library.
Continued on page 5
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Dean’s Message
Sincerely,
José-Marie Griffiths
Professor and Dean
Dear friends and colleagues:
As you will discover in the pages of this newsletter, the whirlwind of activity at SILS
continues. Faculty, staff, students and alumni alike are making major contributions to our
professions and our disciplines, and to the communities they serve.
Last spring I began to discuss the need to re-introduce ourselves as indispensable al-lies
to users of recorded knowledge in the global information age. To shape and refine an
enhanced role and identity for 21st century knowledge professionals, we sought to hear
from leaders who understand today’s (and tomorrow’s) issues of ethics, trust, stewardship
and knowledge transfer. Last fall we convened the Louis Round Wilson Academy, a group of
thought-leaders and information revolutionaries.
The inaugural meeting was held in Chapel Hill in October and included spirited discus-sion
and debate on a wide range of topics including trust, ethics, knowledge, identity and
openness. Academy members were fully engaged as issues of the importance of identifying,
locating, accessing and preserving the world’s recorded knowledge were discussed.
To commemorate the establishment of the Academy, we held a night-time induction
ceremony in the Rare Book Room of the Wilson Library. SILS faculty, in full academic rega-lia,
witnessed each inductee sign a specially designed register. The entire ceremony created
an almost magical memory in its place, time and formality ��� very Harry Potterish!
Just before the end of the Academy meeting, we were delighted to receive and accept
an invitation from the Spanish Embassy and the University of Granada to hold the next
Academy meeting in Granada, Spain.
One lunchtime discussion during the meeting led to the University Library and SILS
joining the Open Content Alliance (OCA). OCA is a group of organizations from around the
world that are building a permanent archive of digitized text and multi-media materials.
The School’s role will be to collaborate with the Alliance on research and to participate on
Alliance working groups.
While actively participating in these global efforts, we are also preparing to celebrate
SILS’ 75th anniversary next academic year. The first class was held on September 17th
1931 and the first graduation was on June 7, 1932. Our watchwords for the celebration are:
rededication, redefinition and commitment:
• Rededication to the high ethical and professional standards that have made this school
and those entrusted to its care, among the best in the nation.
• Redefinition of our ongoing mission to educate and train the “next” generation of
knowledge professionals, and, indeed, an ongoing redefinition of our profession itself.
• Commitment to the highest standards of stewardship of what we believe is now, perhaps
for the first time in history, a globally accessible Knowledge Trust, comprising the totality
of mankind’s recorded knowledge . . . a trust never more accessible, never more at risk, and
never more in need of conscientious, professional, and dedicated stewardship.
We plan to launch the celebration of our anniversary with a week of events starting the
afternoon of September 18th. Other events are planned during the year. Much has changed
over the past 75 years, but our goal of providing excellence in education, research and public
engagement stands constant. Watch for updates on our anniversary plans on our Web site
and in upcoming newsletters.
Finally, I’d like to acknowledge the generosity of so many of you. Your contributions are
all appreciated by us and they all do help us in our pursuit of excellence. I hope you’ll come
back to SILS during the anniversary year to remember the good times and the bad times, to
renew fellowship and camaraderie, and let those of us still here, shake your hand and say a
heartfelt “thank you.”
75th Anniversary C ommittee formed
$1.5 million bequest to benefit techology at SILS
The School of Information and Library
Science will celebrate its 75th anniversary
beginning in fall 2006. To prepare for the year-long
celebration, a planning committee has
been formed.
The first meeting of the group allowed
members to begin discussing ideas for activities
and events for the anniversary celebration. In
addition to reviewing feedback from the Alumni
Association Board and the SILS Board of
Visitors, members conducted a brainstorming
session, developed a preliminary time line and
compiled an initial list of tasks.
Watch for more information about the
75th anniversary on the SILS Web site and in
the next issue of the newsletter. q
The SILS 75th Anniversary Planning Committee. From left to right: David Goble, commit-tee
chair and dean of libraries, Central Piedmont Community College; Julie Harris, Alumni
Association treasurer; Shawn Jackson, director of development; Sarah Snow, chair, Board
of Visitors; Dan Morrow, principal, Jamestown Exploration; Mary Boone, state librarian;
Claudia Gollop, associate dean; José-Marie Griffiths, dean; Wayne Pond, director of UNC’s
Humanities and Human Values; and Karen Sobel, SILS student. Not pictured, David Carr,
associate professor; and Wanda Monroe, director of communications.
Dr. William H. and Vonna K.
Graves have pledged a gift of $1.5
million to the School of Information
and Library
Science
(SILS) at the
Univer-sity
of North
Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
The bequest,
SILS’ largest to date, is intended to
enhance the School’s technology
programs and services.
“The idea is to improve not
only programmatic quality, but also
simultaneously the School’s unit
cost structures and the flexibility
and convenience of its programs for
students—to make the School an
unparalleled exemplar of mea-surable
quality, accessibility and
efficiency,” said Graves.
The couple envisions their gift
being used to “flatten” the School’s
programs and services in ways
currently being discussed by readers
of the book, The World is Flat,
by Thomas Friedman. The book
describes the societal and economic
imperatives for using information
technology to create new collabora-tive
business and organization mod-els.
Graves, an expert on the uses of
IT in higher education, just wrote
of these possibilities in “Improving
Institutional Performance through
IT-Enabled Innovation” in the
November/December (2005) issue
of the EDUCAUSE Review, and he
comments on them frequently in his
blog (Web log) at: http://institution-alperformance.
typepad.com
“To prepare our students
to succeed in a world that is ever
changing, it is imperative that
we not only demonstrate how
technology is altering the way
organizations—both public and
private—gather, analyze, apply and
distribute information, but also use
it to open new avenues of learning
and engagement for our students,”
said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of
SILS. “Through this generous gift
from Bill and Vonna Graves, we will
be able to offer students new learn-ing
opportunities and experiences
in a state-of-the-art technology en-vironment
that extends globally. We
are very grateful for this bequest and
for the thoughtful insight offered by
the Graves’ to enhance the School’s
future through technology.”
William Graves, professor
emeritus of mathematics at UNC at
Chapel Hill and senior vice president
for academic strategy at Collegis,
interacted with SILS faculty on the
School’s planning efforts during the
mid-1990s. He says he was impressed
with the school and its people and
their “can-do, roll-up-the-sleeves at-titude”
to serving their students and
improving their already top-notch
professional programs.
“Dr. Barbara Moran, who was
dean at the time, and colleagues
such as Professor Evelyn Daniel were
providing unselfish leadership that
set the School apart as dedicated not
only to academic excellence, but
also to a public service ethic that is
sometimes not the norm in research
universities,” said Graves. “I hold the
School in high regard and believe
that Dean José-Marie Griffiths will
continue to lead the School forward
on the path of academic excel-lence
and public service still being
practiced by the School’s faculty and
staff.”
Graves served as associate
dean for general education, interim
vice chancellor for academic affairs
and senior information technology
officer under various titles at UNC at
Chapel Hill. He was the founder and
director of the Institute for Academic
Technology—a UNC/IBM alliance.
In 1999 he retired from UNC to
found and chair the board of Edu-prise,
Inc., an academic technology
services firm that subsequently
merged with Collegis, now SunGard
Collegis. He writes a periodic
academic technology column for
Campus Technology and serves as a
co-founding board member on the
boards of both the National Center
for Academic Transformation and
the Alliance for Higher Education
Competitiveness.
The $1.5 million planned
gift counts toward the university’s
Carolina First Campaign goal
of $2 billion. Carolina First is a
comprehensive, multi-year, private
fund-raising campaign to support
Carolina‘s vision of becoming the
nation’s leading public university.
q
SILS and UNC Libraries join the Open Content Alliance
The University Library and SILS
have joined the Open Content Alliance
(OCA), a group of organizations from
around the world that are building a
permanent archive of digitized text and
multimedia materials.
The collections included in the
archive are available for access and
reuse by the global population, while
“respecting the rights of content owners
and contributors.”
The School is the first from a uni-versity
to join the alliance; the library is
the first to contribute manuscripts.
The library will initially focus on a
project to digitize manuscripts from its
Southern Historical Collection.
“These are unique items such as
letters, notes, diaries, handwritten records,
even photos,” said Sarah C. Michalak, SILS
professor, university librarian and associ-ate
provost for University Libraries. “They
are fragile, sometimes they’re hard to read,
and they can be very difficult to convert to
digital form. But each one tells a unique
story. Making them available through the
Open Content Alliance for the world to use
is an exciting opportunity.”
SILS faculty will collaborate with
the Alliance on research and participate
on alliance working groups as will UNC
librarians.
This is not SILS’ first time participat-ing
in the open dissemination of digital in-formation.
The School has been research-ing,
developing and providing open source
software and open digital content through
projects such as ibiblio.org and the Open
Video project. The projects have led to
an expansion of information that would
otherwise be unavailable.
Photo by Songphan Choemprayong
Handling e-mail overload
The situation is all too familiar: e-mail gradually piles up, until one
day your inbox holds 1,342 messages.
Files nest deep inside the office computer network, never to be seen
again. Or you spend hours editing a document, only to find that you’ve
been working on the wrong copy and must start over.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
Duke University have been tackling these problems for three years. Now,
they have created an online tutorial on how best to manage e-mail and
computer files, available free at www.ils.unc.edu/digitaldesktop.
Their project, ��Managing the Digital University Desktop,” involved
studying ways employees at Duke and all 16 UNC campuses deal with the
masses of e-mail and other electronic information that come their way.
“Information overload and e-mail management are insidious and
universal problems that threaten the retention and retrieval of institu-tional
digital assets,” said Dr. Helen Tibbo, principle investigator for the
project and a professor at SILS.
An employee may be able to find lost files and e-mail messages with
search mechanisms, Tibbo said. But other staff who need to access the
employee’s files have difficulty when there is little rhyme or reason to file
names and organizational schemes.
“Managing electronic records is more challenging than organiz-ing
paper records, because users can create, copy and distribute files
so easily, and because there is no apparent need to delete or organize
material when storage costs continuously decrease,” said Tibbo. “Since
few computer programs – such as word processing or e-mail – include
records management features, employees without training in information
organization or archiving often are left to fend for themselves when it
comes to managing files.”
Besides the tutorial, the team posted presentations that may be used
for instruction. The Web site also includes an extensive bibliography, links
to associated resources and frequently asked questions.
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the
grant-making affiliate of the National Archives and Records Adminis-tration,
awarded UNC two grants totaling $253,135 over the three year
period. University Archives and Records Service hosted additional free
workshops on e-mail management.
Members of the Duke research team included project principle
investigator Timothy Pyatt, university archivist; project consultant Dr.
Paul Conway, director of Library Digital Assets Initiatives for the University
Libraries; and project adviser David Mitchell, certified records manager,
University Records.
UNC researchers include principle investigator, Helen Tibbo, profes-sor;
advisers Frank Holt, records service coordinator, and Janis Holder,
university archivist; and managers Ruth Monnig, Megan Winget (doctoral
student at SILS) and Kimberly Chang.
“It was great working with such a wonderful team that blended aca-demics
and archival and records management practitioners,” said Tibbo.
“This project could not have been conducted without such a collaboration
and the support of SILS, the UNC at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library,
and Duke University Libraries.” q
In addition to documents, the library
will contribute expertise acquired through
its Documenting the American South
digital library and related projects, says
Michalak.
“This joint initiative will allow us
to expand the capability and influence of
our research while engaging our students,
thereby enhancing their educational
experience,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths,
dean and professor of SILS. “We can provide
expertise in the areas of digitization of not
only books, but video and multimedia,
metadata design and development and
digital curation and preservation.”
More than 30 organizations have
joined the Alliance, among them are The
New York Times, MSN, Yahoo!, Research
Library Group (RLG) and various universi-ties
throughout the country.
“The Open Content Alliance is based
on the fundamental principles of openness.
We are delighted to participate in an effort
that will expand the availability of and
access to open content,” said Griffiths. q
LRWA continued from page 1
that is available, global society will lose both
confidence and the innovative spirit. As knowl-edge
leaders, we must move immediately to
shape curricula and career paths that respond
precisely to emerging needs in industry, govern-ment,
science and academia,” said Griffiths.
“Citizens of the world are increasingly
aware that they need help in sorting and sub-stantiating
the information they require,” said
Griffiths. “I agree with fellow Academy member
James J. O’Donnell, provost of Georgetown Uni-versity,
when he says the librarian of the future
will have to be a more active participant in
­decision-
making or we will live in infochaos.”
In O’Donnell’s book, Avatars of the Word,
he puts what he refers to as “the historical
moment” in which we live into perspective and
points to what he believes may be our future as
we move toward cyberspace. Both O’Donnell
and Griffiths believe that information specialists
and librarians of the future will be immensely
important.
“If the traditional librarian has been
conceived as a figure at home in the discreet
silences and cautious dealings of a Henry James
novel,” O’Donnell writes, “…now, perhaps the
right model will be found in James Fenimore
Cooper or the Star Wars films: something
between the pathfinder Natty Bumppo and the
Jedi knight.”
By founding the Academy, Griffiths and
her colleagues intend to take on the extraordi-nary
assignment of reviewing and re-designing
roles and models for knowledge professionals
entering the field as well as professionals who
are assuming new and important roles.
The next meeting of the Academy will
be held in Granada, Spain at the invitation of
the Spanish government and the University of
Granada. q
Photo by Tom Lippert Photography
Dr. Robert Martin, former director of the federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services and
current Lillian Bradshaw endowed chair of
Library Science, Texas Woman’s University.
Current Academy members include:
• James Bailey, author and scholar
• Chris Batt, chief executive, Museums,
Libraries and Archives Council
• Dr. Lynne Brindley, chief executive, The
British Library
• Lonnie C. Bunch, founding director of the
National Museum of African American History
and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
• Dr. Reginald Carr, director of University
Library and Bodley’s Librarian, Oxford
University
• Dr. Joan Challinor, former chair, United
States National Commission on Libraries and
Information Science
• Dr. Nancy Davenport, president, Council on
Library and Information Resources
• Catherine DeRosa, vice president of
marketing and library services, OCLC Online
Computer Library Center, Inc.
• Dr. Beth D. Fitzsimmons, president,
Information Strategists, Inc.
• Ubaldo Gonzalez, senior representative,
Spanish Ministry of Finance, Embasay of
Spain
• Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean, School of
Information and Library Science, UNC at
Chapel Hill
• Kenneth Hamma, senior advisor for
Information Policy, J. Paul Getty Trust
• Dr. Paul Horn, executive vice president and
director of Research, IBM Corporation
• Jay Jordan, president and CEO, OCLC
Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
• Brewster Kahle, digital librarian, director and
co-founder, Internet Archive
• Donald King, visiting scholar, UNC at Chapel
Hill, research professor, University of Pittsburgh
• Paula Le Dieu, director, iCommons
• Dr. Robert Martin, Lillian Bradshaw endowed
chair of Library Science, Texas Woman’s
University
• Daniel Morrow, director emeritus,
Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program
• Dave Nicholas, professor of Library and
Information Studies and director of SLAIS,
University College London
• Cathy Norton, director, Marine Biological
Library/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Dr. James J. O’Donnell, provost, Georgetown
University
• Dr. Wayne Pond, director, Program in
Humanities and Human Values, UNC at Chapel
Hill
• Tom Rabon, executive vice president,
Corporate Affairs, Red Hat
• Dr. Yael Ravin, program director, Learning and
Organizational Performance, IBM
• Dr. Eva Mendez Rodriguez, Department
Biblioteconomía y Documentación, ­Univer­sidad
Carlos III de Madrid
• Steve Seidel, Arts in Education Program,
Harvard University Graduate School of
Education
• Dr. Terry Sharrer, curator of Health Sciences,
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of
American History
• Dr. Robert Shelton, executive vice
chancellor and provost, UNC at Chapel Hill
• Dr. Vivian Siegel, senior editor, Department
of Pathology, University of California, San
Francisco
• Matthew Szulik, chairman, CEO, and
president, Red Hat
• Dr. Winston Tabb, dean of University
Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University
• Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia
• John Wilkin, associate university librarian
for Library Information Technology and
Technical and Access Services, University of
Michigan
• Dr. Ian Wilson, librarian and archivist of
Library and Archives of Canada
• Dr. Ann Wolpert, director, MIT Libraries,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Nicole Wong, associate general counsel,
Google, Inc.
• Dr. Shoshana Zuboff, Charles Edward Wilson
Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
Business School
School Life
Opening information horizons
6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006
Mark your calendar for the 2006 Joint Conference on Digital Librar-ies
(JCDL), hosted by the School of Information and Library Science at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The event will take place
June 11 - 15, 2006.
With a theme of “Opening Information Horizons,” the international
event encompasses the many meanings of the term “digital libraries,”
including new forms of information institutions; operational information
systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, col-lecting,
organizing, and distributing digital content; digital preservation
and archiving; and theoretical models of information media, including
document genres and electronic publishing.
This year’s program will include peer-reviewed papers and posters as
well as demonstrations and two plenary sessions:
“Getting Books Online: Practices and Strategies.” A plenary panel on
Monday, June 12.
Panelists include:
• Daniel Clancy, engineer director for Google Print
• David Ferriero, Andrew W. Mellon director and chief executive of
The Research Libraries at The New York Public Library
• Daniel Greenstein, university librarian, California Digital Library
“Open Information: Redaction, Restriction, and Removal.” Jonathan
Zittrain of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law
School Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford will present on
Tuesday, June 13.
“JCDL ’06 will celebrate the progress in making digital information
accessible to people around the world, consider ways in which digital
libraries can help individuals achieve their goals and assist people from
around the globe to understand one another,” said Dr. Gary Marchionini,
conference chair. “We invite you to attend this premier research and
development conference in the friendly venue of Chapel Hill. Join us!”q
To register, or to learn more about the 2006 JCDL Conference, visit the
Web site at: www.jcdl2006.org/
SILS participates in new
Bioinformatics Research
Center
The School of Information and Library Science will participate in a
new $4.5 million research center funded by the United States Environ-mental
Protection Agency (EPA).
The Carolina Environmental Bioinformatics Research Center
(CEBRC) has been created to “foster collaboratory research between
environmental bioinformatics researchers nationwide, and to provide
for the interchange of research data and scholarly information.”
The CEBRC will initially host basic science research projects in-cluding
Biostatistics, ChemInfomatics and Computational Infrastruc-ture.
In addition, the Public Outreach and Translational Activities
(POTA) project will facilitate the exchange and communication of
environmental research between the EPA and the different constituen-cies
it serves (universities, libraries, corporate research, the public,
government agencies and Congress). Dr. Brad Hemminger, assistant
professor at SILS, is the director of POTA as well as an investigator on
the Computational Infrastructure project.
The first program of POTA will be to expand the existing suc-cessful
SILS EPA/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
(NIEHS) internship program.
Developed in conjunction with April Errickson (MSLS ’99),
director of the EPA Library at Research Triangle Park (RTP), N.C., the
expansion will include an internship funded by the CEBRC fellow-ships
for library science students trained in the specialized areas of
environmental and bioinformatics sciences.
For the computational infrastructure project Hemminger and
Dr. David Stotts (project leader, Computer Science) are investigating
common software development frameworks that will allow research-ers
from many different science areas, as well as different locations, to
be involved in common developmental projects. Hemminger’s focus
is on analyzing scientist’s data and scholarly communication needs,
and the evaluation of metadata and standards needed to support
common software development frameworks.
The Center’s Biostatistics project is led by the CEBRC principal
investigator, Fred Wright, associate professor of biostatistics. The
project is responsible for developing new statistical methods and
performing analyses for the computational toxicology community.
Alex Tropsha, professor of Pharmacy, heads the ChemInformat-ics
project, which will coordinate the compilation of data from rel-evant
external chem-informatics databases and perform data mining
to investigate Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships.
As one of only two such research centers funded by the EPA in
the nation, the CEBRC is a unique collaboration including members
from UNC’s Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Pharmacy, Informa-tion
and Library Science and the College of Arts and Sciences. Those
involved with the new Center will work closely with the EPA’s National
Center for Computational Toxicology, located in RTP. q
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School Life
Rare films come to life online
Once confined to dusty film canisters
and dark library shelves, some rare American
films are seeing new life through a joint project
between three University of North Carolina
organizations and Folkstreams, Inc. The groups
have collaborated to create folkstreams.net, a
video streaming Web site built as a national
preserve of documentary films about American
folk and roots culture.
The hard-to-find films now made avail-able
through folkstreams.net represent some
of the most significant and artistic documen-taries
of the 20th century, and they give voice
to the arts and experiences of diverse American
groups. They are accompanied on the Web site
by background materials that provide context
to both the films and their subjects. The films
are protected by copyright, but use of the site
is free.
“Heretofore, much good independent film
work was like the tree falling in the wilderness
with no one to hear,” said Tom Davenport,
Folkstreams project director and independent
filmmaker. “With the Internet and video stream-ing,
we will be able to make a ‘national park’
from this wilderness where everyone can come
and freely hear and see what we have labored on
for so long and
with such enjoy-ment.”
Viewers can
now find films
like Cowboy
Poets, represent-ing
three aspects
of the cowboy-poetry tradition; Give My Poor
Heart Ease, a 1975 account of the blues experi-ence
through the recollections and performances
of B.B. King, James “Son” Thomas, Shelby
“Poppa Jazz” Brown, James “Blood” Shelby,
Cleveland “Broom Man” Jones, and inmates from
Parchman prison; and The Angel That Stands
By Me: Minnie Evans’ Paintings, a portrait of
African-American visionary artist Minnie Evans
and others that have won film festival awards and
critical acclaim.
Folkstreams.net currently streams 55 films
by some of America‘s best-known independent
documentary filmmakers, including Les Blank,
John Cohen, Tom Davenport, William Ferris, Paul
Wagner, Michal Goldman and Susan Levitas.
UNC’s School of Informa-tion
and Library Science, the
Southern Folklife Collection
and ibiblio.org partnered with
Folkstreams, Inc. to create
folkstreams.net. ibiblio.org is
a free public library of digital
material that provides server
space and digital streams for
Folkstreams.net. The Southern
Folklife Collection maintains the film and tape
archives.
The project has been supported through
a $95,000 National Leadership Grant from the
Insti­tute
of Museum and Library Services since
­October
2004. Folkstreams.net also receives support
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
National Endowment for the Humanities. q
Trends in health care and health
information that provide new op-portunities
for partnerships between
information and library sciences and
those in public health, were key topics
of the 2005 Henderson Lecture, entitled,
“Books, Bytes and Bugs.” Dr. Barbara
K. Rimer, dean of the School of Public
Health, discussed patients and the
public within an information rich environment.
Rimer discussed the importance of integrating information and
library sciences and public health; sources people use when seeking
health information; health communication in the information en-vironment;
the role the Internet plays in health information; and the
challenges of organizing, integrating and analyzing large amounts of
public health data.
Health information and communication challenges facing
physicians and other health providers were also discussed. Rimer said
that physicians and those in the health field are inundated with infor-mation
that must be organized, and accessible when it is needed. She
added that public health practitioners often work in computer-poor
environments and although they need information they
may lack access. Rimer noted that while the right information
is needed, people often receive too much information. “People
are bombarded with health information each day and they need
help making sense of it all,” said Rimer. “Online support is one
way people cope.”
Rimer discussed possible areas of collaboration between
SILS and the School of Public Health, suggesting a move
forward to reinvigorate a cross-university health informatics
program with a teaching and research focus (in process).
The annual Henderson Lecture was established in 1990 to
honor the memory of Lucile Kelling Henderson, faculty member
(1932-1960) and dean (1954-1960) of what was then known
as the School of Library Science. Previous lecturers include Dr.
Fred Kilgour, a Distinguished Research Professor in the SILS
and founder of OCLC the Online Computer Library Center; and
Dr. Herbert Van de Sompel, team leader of the Digital Library
Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the
Los Alamos National Laboratory. q
Henderson lecture reveals “books, bytes and bugs”
lina, as well as other local communities. He
currently convenes the Carrboreaders Reading
Group in Carrboro, and recently moderated that
community’s three Community Book Forums.
In addition, community reading was the theme
of his recent presentations in Fredericksburg, Va
and at Duke University.
Developing community through reading
is a topic close to Carr’s heart. His involvement
and professional interests are the basis of his
current research project, “When Communities
Read.” He demonstrates his enthusiasm for
reading by sharing his expertise with commu-nities
far and wide.
“My participation in these sessions is
always exciting,” said Carr. “When people have
read something strong and enriching – when
they have read with their hearts open – it en-hances
the experience if they can come together
in an intimate forum to talk. Toni Morrison
says that reading should have a ‘talking life,’
communication with others that follows the
solitary experience. When communities read,
they are learning lessons together that continu-ously
connect them to each other.” q
What’s Happening with Faculty & Staff
Almost eight marathons!
Paul Jones, clinical associate professor
at SILS and director of the ibiblio online
library and archive, will serve as judge for
a newly created annual award for blog-gers-
turned-published authors. Lulu.com
has set up the Blooker Prize for authors
who began their writing as blogs and
have turned them into fiction, non-fiction
and comic
“blooks” in
print form.
Blooks are
a new trend
in literature
and have been
discussed as
helping read-ers
connect
with authors
through the
use of episodic and short chapters. While
some blooks digress from the traditional
blog style using the blog only for a start-ing
point, they have also been known to
be collaborative efforts that have resulted
from the feedback of blog audiences
before being published.
Jones will join other prize judges to
assess online books based on material
first published on blogs and select the
best for awards. More than 100 blooks
have already been discussed as possible
nominees. Joining Jones on the judging
committee will be prominent net activist
Cory Doctorow and Robin Miller, editor-in-
chief of online technology publisher of
the Open Source Technology Group.
The Blooker Prize will be awarded
annually with small cash prizes for the
winners from Lulu.com, the world’s fast-est-
growing provider of print-on-demand
books, including an increasing number
of blooks. q
When communities read . . . Paul Jones ­judges
world’s first
­Blooker
Prize
A staunch proponent of library-centered
reading groups, Dr. David Carr, SILS associate
professor, is leading training sessions focused
on facilitating group discussions for “Durham
Reads Together,” a program designed to assist
in providing the Durham community and pub-lic
schools with books, services and other re-sources
that inform, inspire learning, cultivate
understanding and excite the imagination.
A member of the “Durham Reads
Together” Steering Committee, Carr has also
worked with community-wide reading projects
in Forsyth and Wake counties in North Caro-
It was an uphill battle for Scott Adams,
technology director at SILS, as he took on the
200-mile-long Blue Ridge Parkway in memory of
friend Jay Clark, who died of cancer last spring.
Despite turbulent weather and strained tendons,
Adams pushed on with friend and fellow SILS
graduate Les Chaffin
(MSLS ’98), who biked
along next to him, in
hopes of raising aware-ness
and money for
cancer research.
While Adams
focused on the trail, he
never lost sight of the
true cause: “Any pain
that we endured during
the run wouldn’t even
come close to the pain that Jay endured while
battling cancer,” Adams said.
The athletes decided to undertake the diffi-cult
run after Clark, a lifelong friend of Chaffin’s,
lost his five year battle with cancer. Friends and
colleagues also urged him on and demonstrated
their support by contributing to the funds set in
Clark’s name. The run raised nearly $7,000.
“Though the 200 mile run was a
life event for me personally, I am
even more convinced that we are a
team when faced with challenges
bigger than ourselves,” said Adams.
“We accomplish nothing without
the care, love and tolerance of
those around us. Les and I have
been overwhelmed by the honor
paid to Jay (Clark) through sup-port,
sharing of stories and prayers
for success. We are very thankful for all
the help we have received and the encouragement
we continue to receive.” q
Photo by Kristin Chaffin and Mindy Adams
Photo by Donald Sizemore
What’s Happening with Faculty & Staff
Tibbo honored for outstanding contributions
Haas named McColl
Term Professor
The National Science Foundation has
awarded a three-year grant of over a half mil-lion
dollars to the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill and Virginia Polytechnic Insti-tute
and State University (Virginia Tech)
to develop a digital
library curriculum.
The project is
entitled “Collaborative
Research: Curriculum
Development: Digital
Libraries.” The effort at
SILS will be led by Dr.
Barbara Wildemuth,
principal investigator
and Francis Carroll
McColl Term Profes-sor,
and Dr. Jeffrey P.
Pomerantz, co-principal
investigator and assistant
professor, and Virginia Tech’s effort will be led
by Dr. Edward A. Fox, principal investigator and
professor of computer science.
“The research will focus on developing
and field testing individual lessons/modules
that can be incorporated within courses or used
to support an entire course,” said Wildemuth.
“With the assistance of our Advisory Board,
students in doctoral consortia and other
experts, we will design,
implement and field test
the modules.”
“Programs in
computer science, as
well as information and
library science, at any
institution with interest
in digital libraries, may
draw upon the project
deliverables to enhance
existing courses, add
digital library (or
related) courses or even
deploy a digital library
curriculum,” said Fox. “Digital library users
will thus benefit from the improved under-standing
of those who build the next generation
of digital library systems,” he added. q
From left to right, Dr. Barbara Wildemuth,
UNC at Chapel Hill; Dr. Edward Fox,Virginia Tech;
and Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz, UNC at Chapel Hill.
Grant funds research on digital library curriculum
Dr. Helen Tibbo, professor at SILS, has been
inducted as a fellow of the Society of American
Archivists. The prestigious award was presented
during a special awards ceremony at SAA’s 69th
Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Fellow is the highest honor bestowed by
SAA to members who demonstrate outstanding
contributions to the archival profession.
“Dr. Tibbo has a strong commitment to
and passion for archives and technological
developments,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths,
dean of SILS. “She is a person of vision, colle-giality
and ethical practice who is committed to
mentoring and developing the next generation
of archivists. She is very deserving of this profes-sional
honor.”
Tibbo is known globally for her work with
archives and records management, informa-tion
services for the humanities, electronic
information retrieval and reference service. She
has won several awards and recognitions for
her achievements—including the School of
Information and Library Science’s 2000 Frances
Carroll McColl Term Professorship.
Her current research projects include
“Developing Standardized Metrics: Towards
Understanding the Impact of College and
University Archives and Special Collections on
Scholarship, Teaching, and Learning,” funded
by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; “Minds
of Carolina,” a project that is exploring how
to best facilitate self-archiving at colleges and
universities; and the National Historical Pub-lications
and Records Commission (NHPRC)
Electronic Records Research Fellowship
Program: Building Capacity Across the Profes-sion.
For the next two years she will be chairing
UNC’s Digital Curation/Institutional Reposito-ries
Committee that will plan and build a pilot
digital repository for UNC at Chapel Hill. q
Dr. Stephanie W. Haas has been named
Francis Carroll McColl Term Professor. She
was selected for her contributions to re-search,
teaching and service to SILS. She has
previously been honored with the American
Society for Information Science Outstand-ing
Information Science Teacher of the Year
Award in 1996, and the SILS Outstanding
Teaching Award in 1997.
Haas teaches courses on databases,
systems analysis, information models,
organization of information, applications of
natural language processing and informa-tion
retrieval. Her current research seeks to
create an integrated model of user access to
and use of governmental statistical informa-tion
(GovStat). Haas’ research extends to
the North Carolina Emergency Department
Database (NCEDD), which makes hospital
emergency department data available for
public health surveillance. The Chief Com-plaint
Vocabulary Project seeks to analyze
the form and content of chief complaints
made in hospital emergency rooms in an
effort to develop a standardized vocabulary.
“We are able to award this additional
professorship because of two generous
donations of support for faculty retention
from Bill and Sara McCoy and from Duncan
Smith,�� said Dr. Jose-Marie Griffiths, dean
of SILS. “We are grateful for their continued
support and generosity.”
Hugh McColl, Jr. established the McColl
Professorship in memory of his mother,
Frances Carroll McColl, and sister, Frances
McColl Covington. McColl said he was in-spired
by the school’s needs and his mother’s
love of literature. “My mother taught every-one
in the family to love books, and we have
prospered from having access to them and,
perhaps more important, knowing where to
turn to find the information we need.” q
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Faculty & Staff News
The latest issue of Library and Information Science Research (vol 27 #3)
included Assistant Professor Dr. Deborah Barreau’s paper, “Integra-tion
of Information Professionals in the Newsroom: Two Organizational
Models for Research Services.” This paper is the result of her SLA grant
project and suggests that librarians who are integrated as part of news
teams are more valued and happier than those who are “pooled.”
Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of SILS, has served on the United States
President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee for the past two
years. The committee released three reports including: “Report to the Presi-dent
on Computational Science: Ensuring America’s Competitiveness,”
the “Report to the President on Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization,”
and the “Report to the President on Revolutionizing Health Care Through
Information Technology.” The reports are available on the Web at: www.
nitrd.gov/pitac/reports/index.html
“Accessing Government Statistical Information,” an article by
Stephanie Haas, Gary Marchionini and SILS doctoral student
Junliang Zhang was recently published in IEEE Computer. The
article is based on their work with the GovStat project and part of an
IEEE Computer issue focusing on digital government.
Congratulations to Shawn Jackson,
director of development, and her hus-band
Morgan, who welcomed their first
child Emsley Taylor Jackson on Oct. 25,
2005. Emsley was 10 pounds and 21.5
inches long.
Assistant Professor Dr. Diane Kelly’s paper,
“The loquacious user: A document-indepen-dent
source of terms for query expansion” was
presented at the Special Interest Group
on Information Retrieval’s 2005 Conference
in Salvador, Brazil. Another of Kelly’s papers,
“Evaluating personal information management
behaviors and tools” was published in the Janu-ary
issue of Communications of the ACM. Kelly has also been awarded
the Eugene Garfield-ALISA Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2006. The title
of her dissertation is, “Understanding implicit feedback and document
preference: A naturalistic user study.”
Christopher (Cal)
Lee joined the
faculty at the School
of Information and
Library Science on
July 1, 2005. Cal
comes to SILS from
the University of
Michigan where he
received two outstanding teaching awards.
He specializes in archives and records man-agement,
and he teaches “Introduction to
Archives and Records Management.”
Mark Winston,
a noted leadership
and diversity scholar,
joined SILS faculty as
an associate professor
on January 1. Mark
was previously at
Rutgers University
where, for the last seven years, he has taught
undergraduate and graduate courses in
leadership, management and organizational
behavior, knowledge creation and use and
reference and information services.
SILS welcomes Dr. Eva Ma Méndez
Rodríguez, a visiting Fulbright Scholar
from the University Carlos III of Madrid
where she has been teaching and researching
since 1997. She
holds a Ph.D.
(cum laude)
in Information
Science from the
same University,
defending her
thesis in the
academic year
2001-2002, which was subsequently awarded
a further prize as the outstanding thesis of
the year in that field.
Lara Bailey has
been promoted to
undergraduate student
services manager. For
the past two years Lara
has been a familiar
face at SILS. She works
with undergraduate students in her new
position.
Meg McKee has
joined SILS staff
as the student ser-vices
assistant in the
Dean’s Office. She
provides administra-tive
support and
greets visitors. Meg graduated from Wake Forest
University in 2003, and after a short time as
program coordinator at Boston University’s
School of Law she is excited to be back in the
warmer weather.
Sarah Aerni has
joined SILS as a
research assistant and
facilitator on projects
under Dr. José-Marie
Griffiths. A graduate
of the University of
Pittsburgh, she has a
bachelor’s degree in economics and a Master’s
in Library Science. Sarah works mostly from
her home in Pittsburgh and plays ultimate
Frisbee in her spare time.
SILS welcomes new faculty and staff
Dr. Robert Losee’s paper, “A Performance Model of the Length and Number
of Subject Headings and Index Phrases” was published in Knowledge Organiza-tion.
In the analysis, Losee provides guidelines for determining and assigning
subject headings and index phrases. Losee’s article entitled “Browsing mixed
structured and unstructured data,” was published in Information Processing &
Management. The article features his work on the use of gray codes to produce
optimal ordering for browsing.
Dr. Joanne Marshall, alumni distinguished profes-sor,
was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from
McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She received the
degree based on her years of service to the field of library
and information science. The honorary doctorate is the
highest academic honor that McGill University can be-stow,
recognizing individuals who have made outstanding
contributions in their fields.
Dr. Barbara B. Moran, professor, has been selected
for a Fulbright Senior Specialists project at the Institute
for Library and Information Studies at Charles University
in Prague, Czech Republic. Moran will travel abroad in
2006 through the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program.
The program, created in 2000 to complement the tradi-tional
Fulbright Scholar Program, provides short-term
academic opportunities to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support
curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at post second-ary,
academic institutions around the world.
Assistant Professor Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz served
on his first National Science Foundation review panel
last summer. His paper entitled, “A Linguistic Analysis
of Question Taxonomies” was published in the April
edition of the Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology. In addition, Dr.
Pomerantz was awarded the 2006 OCLC/ALISE Library
and Information Science Research Grant for his project,
“The Return on Investment of Collaborative Virtual Reference Service.”
Drs. Jeffrey Pomerantz and Diane Kelly, assistant professors, have each
received a UNC Junior Faculty Development Award. Pomerantz will be using the
award funding to launch a project to multi-state evaluation of statewide virtual
reference services. The purpose of Kelly’s project is to evaluate a novel informa-tion
seeking environment that could impact the ways in which information is
located on the Web.
Congratulations to Dr. Brian Sturm,
associate professor, and his wife Monica, who
welcomed their first child, Nicholas Atherton
Sanchez Sturm on November 11, at 8:58 p.m.
He weighed 6lb. 15oz. and measured 51cm.
Dr. Barbara Wildemuth, Francis Carroll McColl Term Professor, was featured
on a Webcast conducted on LiS Interactive Webcasting from the University of
Missouri. The February 16 interview focused on the topic of “Studying Online
Search Behaviors” and included discussion with Dr. Carol Barry from Louisiana
State University.
Faculty & Staff News
Dr. Jane Greenberg, associate professor, has been ap-pointed
to the Advisory Board of the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI). The Advisory Board is comprised of
global experts in the field of metadata who advise the
DCMI Directorate “on all technical and strategic issues
that occur during the operation of the DCMI.”
In addition to advising on specific DCMI activities,
the Advisory Board also has an external role with the
Dublin Core community and a range of global metadata
initiatives.
“The DCMI has had a significant impact in the area
of metadata development and improving access to digital
resources,” said Greenberg. “The DCMI is an exciting
and important international initiative, spanning many
disciplines and endeavors.”
Greenberg was also appointed co-chair of the DCMI
Tools Working Group, along with Thomas Severiens of the
University of Osnabrueck, Germany. The Working Group
provides a forum for those who develop metadata tools
and individuals interested in using metadata applications.
Severiens recently visited the SILS Metadata Research
Center (MRC), where he and Greenberg began work on an
application profile for describing functions and algorithms
of metadata tools.
This year, in keeping with the international spirit of
the DCMI, the MRC is hosting Professor Eva Mª Méndez
Rodríguez from the Library and Information Sciences
Department, University Carlos III of Madrid. Méndez served
as Program Chair of the Dublin Core 2005 Conference
in Madrid, Spain. She is a European Union Fulbright
scholar and the MRC’s first in-house international scholar.
Greenberg and Méndez are collaborating on several
projects including editing a book that addresses ways in
which librarians, particularly those with cataloging and
classification expertise, can contribute to the development
of a more intelligent information infrastructure defined by
the Semantic Web.q
Greenberg appointed to
DCMI Advisory Board and
Working Group
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$150,000 gift from Microsoft
Development
Drs. Gary Marchionini, Cary C.
Boshamer Distinguished professor; Paul
Solomon, associate professor and associate
dean; and Cathy Blake, assistant professor
of the School of Information and Library
Science (SILS) have been awarded a second
$150,000 research gift from the Microsoft
Corporation. The gift is intended to continue
their research on how people annotate
structured information.
Annotations are notes added to text,
databases and other media–often included
in documents to help explain or comment
on specific information. The study will focus
on how people make annotations in various
structured electronic objects, with an eye
toward developing better tools to support
digital annotation.
The team of faculty and SILS graduate
students have been investigating how anno-tations
are made and add value to statistical
data sets, online library catalogs, blogs,
genetic databases, maps and musical scores.
“Our results to date demonstrate the
importance of annotations for both retrieval
and use of structured data and some ways
that annotation facilities migrate from pa-per-
based to electronic information systems,”
said Marchionini, principal investigator of
the study. “This new gift will allow the team
to extend its efforts to observe annotation in
action and expand our efforts to video data
annotation.”
The team will work with a selected
group of people who are making annotations
to structured data. Researchers will observe
the participants using software in their
workplaces, and then record how they make
notes to themselves. Those participating in
the study will be interviewed and observed
over a one-year period to identify strategies
and potential tools for annotating structured
data.
Possible new structured data environ-ments
the team will investigate include video
in digital form and Web-based forms such as
tax returns and other government forms.
“Our work is motivated by SILS’ long-standing
research on how people seek and
use information in electronic forms,” said
Marchionini. “Over time, we anticipate that
the framework developed from the study may
be used by software engineers to build more
productive structured data environments.”q
Board members recognized for
valued services
SILS wishes to recognize the following individuals whose terms expire in June 2006 for
their service to the School as members of its Board of Visitors. We are grateful for the years
of support and advisement they provided.
John Berry
Library Journal
New York, NY
Martin Dillon
Scarecrow Press
Dublin, OH
Les Johnson
North Coast Electric Co.
Bellevue, WA
David Goble named
vice-chair/chair elect
David Goble (MSLS
’94), dean of
libraries at Central
Piedmont Com-munity
College, has
accepted the role
of vice-chair/chair-elect
of the SILS’ Board of Visitors. He joins
Sarah Snow, the current chair, as they work
to advance the efforts and activities of the
Board. Goble’s role is a four-year commit-ment
with two years as vice-chair followed by
two years as chair.
“I am thrilled to be appointed to the
Board of Visitors and to continue serving
SILS,” Goble said. “This appointment is
particularly pleasing as I was introduced to
the Board of Visitors as the president-elect of
the Information and Library Science Student
Association at the board’s inaugural meeting
in 1993. Dr. Griffiths has brought a renewed
sense of energy and initiative to SILS and I
am honored to be a part of those efforts.”
Goble’s commitment to SILS has taken
many forms. He served two terms as treasurer
of the SILS Alumni Association and one term
as president. Prior to accepting the appoint-ment
as vice chair-chair elect of the Board of
Visitors, Goble served on the SILS Carolina
First Campaign Committee.q
Rebecca Lenzini
Denver, CO
Michael Markwith
TDNet, Inc.
West Chester, PA
Thomas McCarty
Cary, NC
Bernie Todd Smith
Rochester, NY
Katina Strauch
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC
Margaret Telfer
Photo Book Press
Minneapolis, MN
Jerry Thrasher
Cumberland County Library
Public Library and Info.Center
Fayetteville, NC
Jerry D. Campbell, a
member of SILS Board
of Visitors, and dean,
chief information
officer and univer-sity
librarian of the
University of Southern
California, was
quoted in the November 4, 2005 issue of The
Chronicle of Higher Education in an article
entitled, “Holocaust Stories Move to Academe.”
The USC has acquired the Shoah Foundation’s
repository of 52,000 testimonies of survivors
and other witnesses to the Holocaust. The
Shoah Foundation was founded by film direc-tor,
Stephen Spielberg. The preservation of
the archive is dedicated to scholarship in the
humanities and social sciences. q
Honorable Mention
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The School of Information
and Library Science at the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill is pleased
to recognize the following
donors for their kind
contributions.
Charles Gerrard Society
We would like to thank the
following individuals for
including the school in their
estate plans:
William H. Graves and
Vonna Graves
The following list reflects any
gifts and pledge payments
received between July 1, 2004
to June 30, 2005.
Legacy Society
$1 million and above
No donors in this category
Louis Round Wilson Society
$100,000 - $999,999
Dialog
Estate of Louis Round Wilson
Susan Grey Akers
Affiliates
$50,000 - $99,999
Estate of Phyllis T. Hall
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Affiliates
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The SILS Carolina First
Campaign Committee assists
the School with fundraising.
The Carolina First Campaign
is the comprehensive, multi-year
private fund-raising drive
supporting Carolina’s vision
to become the nation’s leading
public university. We would like
to acknowledge the commit-tee
members for their work on
behalf of the School.
Jerry Campbell
University of Southen California
Pasadena, CA
David Ferriero
New York Public Library
New York, NY
Barbara Moran
School of Information and
Library Science
Chapel Hill, NC
Fred Roper
Columbia, SC
Bernie Todd Smith
Rochester, NY
Duncan Smith
EBSCO Publishing
Durham, NC
Claude Snow*
EDS
Chapel Hill, NC
Sarah Snow*
Chapel Hill, NC
Margaret Telfer
Photo Book Press
Minneapolis, MN
*Denotes Campaign Co-Chairs
Carolina First
Campaign
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If we have inadvertently
omitted or incorrectly
listed your name, we
sincerely apologize and
ask that you make Shawn
Jackson aware at:
Shawn_Jackson@unc.edu
WISE program offers options for students
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New and unique online
course opportunities abound
for students pursuing degrees in
the School of Information and
Library Science. The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill is
among 13 partner schools around
the country that have turned to
Web-based Information Science
Education (WISE) to broaden op-portunities
for students at leading
library and information science
schools.
The WISE program allows
students at SILS to take online
courses at any of the other partici-pating
schools for credit towards
their UNC degrees. By participat-ing
in a WISE course, students
can choose from an extensive list
of distance education opportuni-ties.
Participants are given greater
flexibility in scheduling, and they
can work with other respected fac-ulty
around the country and have
access to research that otherwise
would be inaccessible.
“As a member of the WISE
Consortium,
SILS is
engaged in
an innova-tive
online
program
in distance
education
for library and information sci-ence
education,” said Dr. Claudia
Gollop, SILS associate dean. “SILS
students not only receive the
education they want when they
need it, they also benefit from the
diversity that is cultivated through
their increased access to students
and professors outside of Chapel
Hill.”
Some of SILS students have
enrolled in the new program and
are taking classes in the School of
Media Librarianship at Indiana
University at
Indianapolis.
The class
“the School
Library
Media
Center,” is
normally of-fered
at SILS, but was unavailable
last semester. With permission
from Professor Evelyn Daniel, the
students had the opportunity to
complete the course online.
“So far, the thing I have
liked best about the program is the
number of professional resources
Dr. Johnson (our professor) has
exposed us to online and in print
form,” SILS and WISE student
Emily Stitsinger said. “Most of
these resources are housed on
the class Web site, which will be
accessible to us even after our
coursework is completed.”
Now in its second year, part-ner
institutions of WISE include:
Indiana University-Indianapolis,
Rutgers University, Simmons Col-lege,
Syracuse University, Univer-sity
of British Columbia, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
University of Maryland, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
University of Pittsburgh, University
of Texas at Austin, University of
Western Ontario, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Victoria
University of Wellington. q
Dissertations and theses can
now be submitted online
Members of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations committee include,
from left to right: Brad Hemminger, Pat Mullin, Cheryl Thomas,
Brandon Bowman, Timothy Shearer. Not pictured, Kathy Thomas and
Elizabeth Evans.
The days of last minute trips to copy centers to print copies of master’s
theses and dissertations are drawing to a close. UNC’s Graduate School has
embraced a new initiative that allows students to submit their theses and
dissertations electronically.
In previous years, graduate
students submitting their disserta-tions
or theses to the Graduate
School were required to print
two copies (three for theses) on
expensive 100 percent cotton paper
in order to graduate. They had to
then hand-deliver their paperwork
to the office in Bynum Hall, where
staff would carefully review the
physical print copies for adherence
to format guidelines.
Beginning Spring 2006, this
procedure will change. The Gradu-ate
School will allow students to
submit their dissertations and
theses electronically. The School
plans to convert to completely
electronic submissions in two
years.
“Our goal was to make the
submission of theses and disserta-tions
as well as access to them
completely electronic, and in the
process to make things simpler
and less expensive,” said Dr. Brad
Hemminger, chairman of the
campus Electronic Theses and Dis-sertations
(ETD) committee, and
a faculty member of the School of
Information and Library Science.
Cheryl Thomas, Director of
Graduate Admission and Enroll-ment
Services at the Graduate
School, believes this will have a
positive impact on the Graduate
School which processes almost all
their theses and dissertations in
the days before semester gradua-tion
deadlines. “To save students
the money spent on copies, and
the time spent traveling to Chapel
Hill or waiting in line on the due
date will be very helpful to every-one
involved,” she said.
For more information on
ETDs at Carolina view the ETD
Web pages at: http://gradschool.
unc.edu/etd/index.html or contact
the Graduate School. q
• Continually plug the library and contribute
to efforts that will make your library
the centerpiece of the organization it is
operating in.
• Think about the library all of the time.
• Build partnerships with people who
surround your organization and people within
the organization to accomplish agendas.
• Communicate your message often and
let people know that you are committed to your
goals.
• Most importantly, believe that with
energy, vision and passion everything is
possible.
• Never give up.
The panel discussion, “Uniting Educa-tion
and Practice: Preparing Students for
Tomorrow’s Workforce,” featured Burger and
panelists Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of SILS
at UNC at Chapel Hill; Dr. Irene Owens, dean of
the School of Library and Information Science
at North Carolina Central University; Rebecca
Vargha, president-elect of the Special Librar-ies
Association and UNC SILS librarian; and
moderator Dr. David Carr, associate professor.
Panelists discussed preparation for enter-ing
the profession, noting that while new librar-ians
are comfortable with the technical skills
required by the job, it is in the “softer skills”
such as management, leadership and strategic
planning that they will need as well. Griffiths
emphasized that the workplace is an opportu-nity
to apply the theory that students gained in
school, and encouraged them to network with
colleagues, talk with practitioners and assess
organizational cultures. Burger highlighted
the necessity to know the organization that you
are working for and understand what leaders
Students welcome ALA president-elect
Leslie Burger, president-elect of the Ameri-can
Library Association (ALA), was welcomed to
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
as the keynote speaker at the “Today’s Leaders/
Tomorrow’s Libraries” lecture and panel discus-sion
in November. The event provided students,
faculty and staff of the School of Information
and Library Science the opportunity to discuss
how library schools prepare students for profes-sional
positions.
Burger’s keynote lecture entitled, “Trans-forming
Libraries for the 21st Century: A Call
to Action,” highlighted suggestions for current
and future information professionals and the
importance of membership and involvement in
ALA. She advised on establishing libraries that
reflect user interests and values, and creating a
culture that allows staff to use their knowledge,
skills and abilities to provide excellent service.
In addition, Burger listed the following
tips for new professionals entering the work-force:
• Don’t be afraid to take chances and be
creative.
• Think strategically. Have a personal
mission and respond to the needs of the
community.
• Step outside of the box (as much as
possible). Think critically about how
to fundamentally change the way
people view your library.
• Identify areas of excellence. Assess cur-rent
policies and work with staff to
make improvements.
• Create a team of people who share your
vision. Change happens best in a
collaborative way.
• Raise the profile of the library.
are looking for in a professional. All panelists
participated in the lively discussion.
The successful event gave future profes-sionals
the opportunity to hear the advice of
four leaders within library and information
science, who all emphasized the social roles
that libraries play and the importance of
research. q
The lending library created by SILS stu-dents
for a local homeless shelter is not only
a hit with the children and mothers living
there, the student project also captured the
attention of the Special Libraries Association
(SLA), an international organization that
represents information professionals.
SILS students Cindy McCracken,
Meg McGinn, Shauna Griffin and
Kristen Boekelheide were awarded first
place in Outstanding Leadership by a Student
Group for their work establishing the library
at Homestart, a homeless shelter for women
and children in Chapel Hill. They also took
the Certificate of Merit for third place in In-novative
Programming by a Student Group.
“The lending library project created by
SILS students of the student chapter of the
SLA is a stellar example of teamwork across
the state of North Carolina,” said Rebecca
Vargha, SILS librarian and student advisor.
“Our students are leading the way in making
a difference in the community. The new
lending library will open doors to many pos-sibilities
for families at Homestart.”q
Homeless shelter’s
lending library an
award-winning hit!
Student organiz-ers
poze with Leslie
Burger, president-elect
of the American
Library Association.
From left to right,
Michael Habib,
Valerie Gillispie,
Leslie Burger,Stefanie
Warlick, Amanda
Allgood and Rebecca
Pappert.
Photo by Brad Burrow
Students prepare and organize books
for the library. From left to right,
Meg McGinn, Kristen Boekelheide,
­Cindy
McCracken and Shauna Griffin.
What’s Happening with SILS Students
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SILS Commencement
The graduating class of 2005 joins school faculty for a portrait outside Manning Hall.
The School of Information and Library
Science celebrated the graduation of 98
students who received their doctoral, masters’
and bachelors’ degrees on May 15, 2005. The
commencement ceremony featured special
guest speaker Paul Horn, senior vice-president
and director of IBM Research, who presented,
“Beyond Technotoys and Hype: What Will
Really Succeed the Industrial Age.” He spoke
about advancements in technology, the most
significant changes ahead of us, and what
those changes will likely mean for the genera-tion
inheriting and shaping them.
Several awards were presented during the
ceremony including the Outstanding Teacher
of the Year Award, presented to Dr. Jerry D.
Saye, and the Distinguished Alumni Award re-ceived
by Larry Alford. The Dean’s Achievement
Awards were presented to Rebecca Kemp and
Susan Teague Rector by Drs. Stephanie Haas
and Robert Losee. Christie Lynne McDaniel
and Marisa Ramirez received the Outstanding
Service to the School Awards from Amy Gresko,
current president, SILS Alumni Association.
Spring 2005 SILS Graduates
Doctor of Philosophy
James Lyon Dominick
Mark Anthony Russo
Master of Science in
Information Science
Clifton Aaron Barnett
Damien Mario Berahzer
Hugh Anthony Cayless
Anita M.C. Crescenzi
Dragomir V. Dimitrov
April Lannae Edlin
Larry Dean Farrell
Keith Anderson Gatlin III
Marie Remig Kennedy
Anne Marie LeBel
Cynthia S. McCracken
Naini Harendra Mistry
Mahesh Pozhickal
Madanamohanan
Chang Su
Tammy Lynn Wells-Angerer
Jesse D. Wilbur
Kelly Johnson Wilkie
Master of Science in
Library Science
Anna Elise Allison
John Wilson Atkinson
Maureen Elise Barry
Nicholas Kuster Bellows
Ewald Heinz Uwe Beltz
Rita Bhattacharyya
Ian Craig Breaden
Kimberly Jo Campbell
Deborah Jean Carlos
Robin S.D. Chen
Mara E. Dabrishus
April Dawn Disque
Lewis Robert Dorman, IV
Alexandra Elizabeth Duda
Nelson Downing Eubanks
Sarah E. Falls
Alison Mary Foley
Laura Hocutt Fox
Mary Elizabeth Gabehart
Emily Jill Glenn
Larisa Vitaly Good
Christine Scoggins Granquist
Tiffany Amber Hayes
Krisztian Horvath
Deborah Williams Joyner
Jessica Freya Kem
Anna Irene Krampl
Alexandra Bennett Leinaweaver
Corinne Jean Mahoney
Sarah Anne Matusz
Meg Joanne McGinn
Christine Russell Mitchell
Margarite Annette Nathe
Alida Marie Pask
Scott Rien Phinney
Martha Ingrid Preddie
Marisa Lyn Ramirez
Abigail Joan Rovner
Amanda Jones Sherriff
Anne Helen Skilton
Michelle Alicia Stover
Susan Rebecca Sylvester
Jessica Anne Tyree
Alan Ethan Unsworth
John Nielson Vickery
Adam Paul Webb
Jane Louise Webster
Emily M. Weiss
James Thomas Wellman
Nora Ellen Wikoff
Kristen Elizabeth Wilson
Bachelor of Science
in Information
Science
Anecia Dishel Allen
Christopher Bryan Bar-tholomew
Stephan Christopher Bayer
Anthony Brent Caison
Elizabeth Alana Carlton
Justin Robert Changler
Christina Ngozi Ekeleme
Monte Devonta Evans
Krystal Alexis FOxx
Tammy Charlene Greene
Dana Ashley Hafertepen
Terrance Andreas Hairston
Ryan Patrick Hanna
Eric Joseph Hoffman
John Eric Howie, Jr.
Anita Mark Jotwani
Brian Edward Kubis
Celine Ting Ma
Christine Lynne McDaniel
Manisha R. Patel
Peter Cary Robson
Aaron D. Shah
Chia-Ling Tsai
Lorilee-Maye Woods
Yuan S. Yue
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Dr. Jerry D. Saye received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the School
of Information and Library Science. The award recognizes excellence in teaching,
commitment to students and innovation and effectiveness in teaching.
A member of the SILS faculty since 1985, Dr. Saye specializes in organization of
information, history of books and libraries, cataloging and classification, abstracting
and indexing, technical services and metadata. A respected scholar and teacher, he
routinely receives rave reviews from both students and peers.
“Dr. Saye has been one of the most personable, engaging and enthusiastic
professors with whom I have ever had the opportunity to interact,” wrote one student.
“He consistently shows his dedication to teaching in the field of library science,
teaching multiple courses most semesters to ensure that students have ample
opportunities to take courses relevant to their fields.”
Dr. Saye’s “commitment, dedication and enthusiasm are unquestionable and
unwavering,” said Deborah Barreau, who received the award in 2004. “It is a tribute to
his teaching excellence that he has been nominated for this award so often and is, in
fact, a past recipient.” q
Dr. Jerry D. Saye receives the SILS Outstanding
Teaching Award from Dr. Deborah Barreau,last
year’s recipient.
Dr. Jerry D. Saye receives Outstanding Teaching Award
Larry Alford selected for Distinguished Alumni Award
The School of Information and Library Science
Alumni Association selected Larry Alford to receive the 2005
Distinguished Alumni Award. The award was presented at the
school’s commencement ceremony on May 15, 2005.
Alford (MSLS ’77) was the former deputy university
librarian at UNC at Chapel Hill before accepting the position
of vice provost for libraries and university librarian at Temple
University.
Alford served at UNC for 30 years, starting as a circulation librarian in the 1970s.
He helped define standards for using barcodes to circulate materials with the online
catalog development project. Later, Alford served as project manager for the construction
of Davis Library and the renovation of Wilson Library. Among his many accomplish-ments,
he also oversaw the renovation of the Robert B. House Undergraduate Library.
“We are proud to present this award to Larry, who is nationally recognized as a
leader in the field of library science,” said Mary Horton, immediate past president
of the SILS Alumni Association. q
Alumni Association president, Amy
Gresko, presents the awards for
Outstanding Service to the School to
Marisa Ramirez (pictured left) and to
Christie Lynne McDaniel (above).
Paul Horn, senior vice-president and
director of IBM Research, tips his Tar
Heel cap to the class of 2005 during
his commencement address.
Master’s student
Chelcy Boyer
was awarded the
John F. Kennedy
Library Foundation
Research Grant
to study class and political issues of
presidential libraries. Her findings
are the basis of her master’s thesis.
Abe Crystal,
doctoral
student at
SILS received
the “Doctoral
Students to
ALISE Award.” He is one of only two
students selected to receive the com-petitive
award for the international
conference which provides for lodg-ing
and complimentary registration
for the ALISE annual conference.
Meredith R.
Evans, a Ph.D.
student, is the
new curator
of Printed
Materials in
the Archives & Special Collections
department of Robert W. Woodruff
Library in the Atlanta University
Center.
A program to
fund training
for librarians
in environ-mental
bioin-formatics
has
been created through the recently
established Carolina Environmental
Bioinformatics Research Center
(CEBRC). The first fellowship from
the program was awarded to Lara
Handler, a first year master’s
student in library science at SILS.
Emily Horner recently saw her
article, “Kamishibai as Propagan-da
in Wartime Japan,” published
in the prestigious Storytelling,
Self, Society: an interdisciplinary
journal of storytelling studies.
SILS masters’ students, Monica
McCormick and Phil Binkows-ki
were awarded the Elfreda
Chatman Award by SILS Alumni
Association. McCorkmick won for
her paper “Institutional Repositories
and Author Self-Archiving: Does
Knowledge Matter?” and Binkowski
was awarded for “Tag-based book-marks—
Better or Worse?”
Rebecca Miller, a master’s
student at SILS, received the Baker
Taylor Scholarship Grant for 2006.
This award will allow Miller to
attend a two-week seminar at Oxford
University in England this summer.
Student Notes
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The following Ph.D. students have
successfully defended their disserta-tions:
Ron Bergquist, Meredith
Evans, Bin Li, Andrew May,
Megan Oakleaf and Meng
Yang. Congratulations!
Ph.D. student, Carol Perryman
received a first place award for her
paper “Information Behaviors in
an Online Smoking Cessation Com-munity”
at the 2005 MLA Annual
meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
Since arriving at SILS last year, Per-ryman
has been working with Duke
and UNC Health Services Libraries
on projects related to consumer
health information and evidence
based librarianship.
Master’s students Ashley Brown,
Sally Quiroz, and Cassidy Sug-imoto
have been been inducted
into the Frank Porter Graham Honor
Society that recognizes outstanding
service provided to the university
and community by graduate and
professional students enrolled at
UNC at Chapel Hill.
Students win interactionary design competition
Four SILS students were
awarded for their on-the-spot
creativity, as they designed a DVD
remote control unit usable for
arthritic and farsighted users.
Anuj Sharma, Sam
Kome, Sayan Chakraborty
and Ric Simmons represented
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill as they competed
against a team from the North
Carolina State University during
the World Usability Day Interac-tionary
Design Competition. The
teams were not given the task
beforehand and had only 20 min-utes
to create their prototype. Five
judges, including SILS Professor
Dr. Gary Marchionini, evaluated
the projects based on teamwork,
process, final design and user
perspective.
“The Interactionary was
great fun and I think we all
learned a lot from the judges,”
said Kome. “The competition is
more about process than product
- in 20 minutes no one can com-plete
a radical new design. The
team worked well together, used
user-centered design principles
and had lots of practice.”
World Usability Day is held
annually in more than 70 cities
in 30 countries to promote easy-to-
use technology. Its goal is to
emphasize the value of usability
engineering, user-centered design
and individual user’s responsibil-ity
to ask for things to work better.
This year, activities that high-lighted
the importance of these
goals focusing on e-government,
e-commerce and other com-mercial
applications, took place
around the world on Nov. 3.
“Most people don’t real-ize
that there are schools and
companies dedicated to making
things easier to use,” said Abe
Crystal, SILS doctoral student and
Usability Day attendee. “World
Usability Day will help usability
specialists and researchers gain
the prominence they need to really
make a difference.”
Locally, activities were hosted
by the Triangle User Experience
Group and were held at MCNC,
a non-profit organization that is
committed to advancing educa-tion,
innovation and economic
development throughout North
Carolina by delivering next-gen-eration
information technology
services. q
Interactionary Design Team
from left: Anuj Sharma, Sam
Kome, Sayan Chakraborty and
Ric Simmons
Photo by Cindy McCracken
Born in Beirut in 1968, Lokman Meho’s
journey to assistant professor has been a long
one, with exploration and obstacles along
the way. Meho, who currently works for the
School of Library and Information Science at
Indiana University, was more fortunate than
his parents. He was able to attend public
school and ultimately receive a full scholar-ship
to attend the American University of
Beirut where in 1991 he earned a bachelor’s
degree in Political Science.
His interest in books began at an
early age, but it was a comment he read that
inspired Meho’s interest in libraries and re-search.
After reading that literature on Kurds
was scarce, Meho “became curious whether
this was a fact or just a lack of knowledge on
the part of the author,” he said. This curiosity
led Meho to pursue a job at the UAB’s library
(Jafet) where he gained experience in retriev-ing,
filtering and organizing information.
“Recognizing the significance and value of
access to information in research, I decided
to compile and publish as many annotated
bibliographies on Kurds and Kurdistan as
possible,” Meho said.
The librarians at Jafet encouraged Meho
to pursue a Master’s in Library Science in the
U.S. and after attempts to secure funding on
his own, his father decided to sell his car to
give Meho the opportunity to study abroad.
Through this generous sacrifice, Meho began
his U.S. studies with a MLS degree from North
Carolina Central University. He ended up in
the Ph.D. program at UNC’s School of Infor-mation
and Library Science with assistance
from his financial sponsor and mentor, NCCU
Assistant Dean Duane Bogenschneider. While
studying in Chapel Hill, Meho continued
to teach and research with the support and
encouragement of SILS faculty. He success-
Profile: Dr. Lokman Meho
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fully defended his dissertation and received his
Ph.D. in November 2001.
Since he began researching, Meho
has remained dedicated to his initial goals,
publishing three bibliographies, which contain
more than 800 books and articles about Kurds
and Kurdistan. In addition, Meho’s interest in
issues of libraries and censorship in the Arab
world have led to his publication of two other
annotated bibliographies.
Meho’s accomplishments have not gone
unnoticed. He recently won the OCLC/ALISE
2006 Library and Information Science Re-search
Grant with fellow SILS graduate, Kiduk
Yang (MSLS ’02). They were awarded for
their project “Citation Analysis of Library and
Information Science Faculty Publications: ISI
Databases and Beyond,” Meho’s first research
grant.
“Our ultimate goal is to build a system
that will help scholars and librarians world-wide
conduct a new line of bibliometrics
research in much more efficient and effective
ways,” Meho said. “The system will signifi-cantly
cut short the time required to collect
citation data from multiple sources while at
the same time help conduct more rigorous and
advanced citation analysis studies.”
Meho was also the recipient of ALISE’s
2005 Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper
competition with Kristina Spurgin (current
SILS Ph.D. student) for their paper, “Ranking
the Research Productivity of LIS Faculty and
Schools: An Evaluation of Data Sources and
Research Methods.” He was recognized as an
outstanding teacher with the 2006 Trustees
Award from SLIS at Indiana University, which
is given to faculty with outstanding commit-ment
to student development.
Colleagues note that Meho’s door is
always open; he has even arranged to meet and
work with students completing online search
projects on weekends. In course evaluations
students consistently give Meho high marks for
enthusiasm and availability. They comment on
his willingness to seek them out in the library
or laboratory to see how their work is progress-ing.
This commitment to seeing education
as part of the whole of life is also evident in
his establishing an informal listserv for SLIS
students to communicate about professional
and social matters. q
Craig Breaden, a 2005 master’s
graduate from SILS, has been awarded the
Theodore Calvin Pease Award by the Society
of American Archivists.
Recognized for his outstanding
achievement in writing as a student of
archival administration, Breaden’s paper
“Sound Practices: Online Audio Exhibits
and the Cultural Heritage Archive” won for
its innovation, scholarship, pertinence and
clarity. Breaden is one of five SILS alumni
that have won the Pease Award since its
inception in 1997.
“The paper examines how cultural
heritage archives deliver, or ‘exhibit’ audio
on the Web,” Breaden noted. “In order to
answer some basic questions about the
archives, I created a matrix to use as a
measuring tool to profile 25 Web sites.”
“It makes me want to write better,”
Breaden said. “Receiving the award in front
of my peers in New Orleans last month was
exciting, and having the paper published in
the American Archivist next year is a great
reward.”
Since winning the award, Breaden has
gone on to complete a second exhibition
Web site for the Southern Folklife Collec-tion
entitled “Fiddler’s Grove Retrospective,
1970-2000,” which followed his December
launch of “Hillbilly Music: Source and
Symbol.” Breaden is currently working at
North Carolina State University on a photo
digitization project.
“Winning has focused my plans and
reminded me of my original goal when I
started at SILS. I am now more commit-ted
to working with archival media and
enabling users to access audio and video,”
Breaden acknowledged. q
Graduate recognized for
superior writing
Since the last edition of the newsletter, the SILS Alumni Association Board
has stayed quite busy. May’s commencement ceremony marked the end of
another successful academic year. SILSAA was pleased to present Larry Alford
with a Distinguished Alumni award. Larry is currently the vice provost for librar-ies
and university librarian at Samuel Paley Library. We also presented Christie
McDaniel and Marisa Ramirez with Outstanding Service to the School awards.
As always, we hosted a reception with cake and punch after the ceremony.
Over the summer we held elections for the offices of secretary and vice
president/president-elect. Kelley Lawton and Andy Ingham, respectively, had
served their terms and we thank them for their hard work over the past few
years. We welcomed new secretary Charles Cobine and the new vice president
Mark Sanders at our annual fall planning retreat. They have been wonderful
additions to the Board.
During the first week of classes last fall, SILSAA hosted its traditional New Student Reception in
Manning Hall. Despite the hot and humid weather, we had an overwhelmingly high turnout. A fine
time was had by all, and we were pleased to award two graduate and one undergraduate students with
Elfreda Chatman Book Awards, thanks to your generous contributions.
We participated in the planning for December graduation ceremonies and are beginning to
discuss ideas for an alumni reunion sometime during the next academic year – stay tuned! In order
to help us keep you informed of our activities, I encourage you to verify your subscription to the sils-alumni
listserv, and join if you are not a current subscriber. The traffic is extremely light and the list
provides an invaluable communication tool. Visit http://listserv.unc.edu/ select “search for lists” on
the right-hand side of the screen and search for “sils” or “alumni” (a more directed search, unfortu-nately,
is not possible). Find the “sils-alumni” list in the retrieval set and chose to visit or subscribe to
the list. You may also keep up with our activities by visiting our Web site at:
http://ils.unc.edu/alumni/ q
Alumni board stays busy with activities SILS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD 2005-06
Amy Gresko, president
greskoa@meredith.edu
Mary Horton,
immediate past president
mhorton@wfu.edu
Mark Sanders, vice president/
president-elect
sandersm@mail.ecu.edu
Julie Harris, treasurer
jharris@library.dcr.state.nc.us
Charles Cobine, secretary
cobine@email.unc.edu
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
José-Marie Griffiths, dean
Shawn Jackson,
director of development
Rosalyn Metz,
ILSSA student representative
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Alumni News
President’s
Message
By Amy Gresko
Alumni Association
Mary Boone
(MSLS ’73),
SILS alumna
and recipient of
the 2003 SILS’
Distinguished
Alumni Award,
has been named
North Carolina’s
state librarian.
Secretary Lisbeth C. Evans of the North
Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
announced the appointment which went into
effect November 15, 2005.
A native of North Carolina, Boone was
director of the Chapel Hill Public Library from
1978 to 1985 and was a founding member of
the North Carolina Public Library Directors
Association. Since 1985 she has been a foreign
service library/information resource officer with
the United States Information Agency and the
U.S. Department of State, with service in Asia,
the Middle East, Europe, and Washington,
DC. Her assignments included serving as the
director of the Department of State’s extensive
international library program from 1999 to
2002, and overseeing the planning and estab-lishment
of the Jefferson Information Center,
a new Department of State initiative incorpo-rating
its existing library and a new research
service, from 2002 to 2005.
“We’re delighted that one of our distin-guished
alums is returning to North Carolina
at this critical time when libraries are facing
many challenging issues,” said Dr. José-Marie
Griffiths, dean, School of Information and
Library Science. “We welcome Mary back to
North Carolina and wish her the best with her
new appointment.” q
Mary Boone named North Carolina’s State Librarian
State Representative Alice Bordsen
(MSLS ’83), spoke with students in
Ron Bergquist’s “Seminar in Public
Libraries” class on Monday, February
20. In the photo above, Representa-tive
Bordsen answers questions from
MSLS student Halley Hall.
N.C. State Representative
visits with SILS students
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Elise Allison (MSLS ’05) has
won the Gene Williams award
from the Society of North Carolina
Archivists for the best paper on an
archival topic written for a gradu-ate-
level course.
Aletha Andrew (MSLS ’00)
and Sukey Stephens Harper
(MSLS ’00) of the Seymour
Johnson Air Force Base Library in
Goldsboro, N.C., are celebrating
their library’s selection as the best
library program in the United
States Air Force. Dr. Andrew is
the reference librarian at the base
library, and Ms. Stephens Harper
is the director there. The base
library supports the missions of
the 4th Fighter Wing by providing
mission-essential information,
academic support and program-ming
enhancing the quality of life
for Airmen and their families.
Stuart Basefsky (MSLS ’79) was
awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s
Award for Excellence in Librarian-ship
for 2005. Basefsky is an infor-mation
specialist and lecturer at
the Martin P. Catherwood Library,
School of Industrial & Labor Rela-tions
(ILR), Cornell University and
director of the IWS News Bureau of
the Institute for Workplace Studies
(IWS) in the New York City Office
of the ILR School.
Kristen Bullard (MSLS ’03)
became the instructional services
coordinator at the University of Ten-nessee,
Knoxville on July 1. She was
previously the instruction librarian
at the University of Houston.
Greg Crawford (MSLS ’84) has
been promoted to librarian at the
Pennsylvania State University and
on July 1 was named director of
the Penn State Harrisburg Library.
Loudres Cueva Chacon (MSIS
’05) was recently hired as a user
interface designer at Lulu.com.
Sue Erickson (MSLS ’00) was
named acting head of Reference
for the Central Library at Van-derbilt
University. Sue has been
bibliographer for Anthropology &
Society at the school for five years.
Mary Gabe-hart
(MSLS ’05)
has received the
Pratt-Severn Best
Student Research
Paper Award
offered by the American Society of
Information Science and Technol-ogy
(ASIS&T). The award was
presented in Charlotte, N.C. during
the awards ceremony of the annual
international conference. Gabehart
also presented her paper, which is
titled, “An analysis of citations to
retracted articles in the scientific
literature.”
Linda Greenblatt Esterling
(MSLS ’75) is a market research
analyst for the N.C. Small Business
and Technology Development
Center and lives in Carrboro, N.C.
Robin Hollingsworth Wil-liford
(MSLS ’99) and husband
Joey welcomed their first child,
Charles William, on Sunday,
February 13, 2005. Robin has
resigned from her position as
director of the Sampson County
Public Library System to become a
stay-at-home mom to Charlie.
Reference librarian Gerald
Holmes (MSLS ’85) received the
REMCO (Round-table
for Ethnic and
Minority Concerns)
Roadbuilders Award
at the recent North
Carolina Library
Association meet-ing.
The award
recognizes ethnic
minority librarians who have
served as pioneers in librarianship
and as positive role models.
Anthony Hughes (MISIS ’03)
and Barbara Wildemuth have
published a chapter “Perspectives
in the Tasks in which Informa-tion
Behaviors Are Embedded” in
the ASIS&T monograph: Theories
of Information Behavior. The
article covers important research
and theories underlying informa-tion
tasks and utilizes a prestigious
list of contributers.
An article based on Mariam
Intrator’s (MSLS ’03) award-winning
master’s paper “The
Theresienstadt Ghetto Central
Library, Books and Reading: Intel-lectual
Resistance and Escape dur-ing
the Holocaust,” was published
in the 2005 Year Book of the Leo
Baeck Institute. This work has
also led to publication in Libri,
and to a conference presentation
in Israel this past September.
Miriam is now looking at doctoral
programs.
Lynn Jacobson (MSLS ’98) has
been promoted to head of catalog-ing
at the Jacksonville Public
Library, Jacksonville, Fla.
Wooseob Jeong (MSLS ’97)
received a Diversity Grant of
$2500 from the American Library
Association’s Office for Diversity.
Jeong won the award for his re-search
with the blind and visually
impaired, with the goal of increas-ing
their access to library services
and resources, and the Web.
Caroline Keizer (MSLS ’98)
was named supervising cataloger
of the North Carolina Collection at
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Kristen Krause
McDonough (MSLS
’70) is the Robert and
Joyce Menschel director
of the New York Public
Library Science, Industry
and Business Library (SIBL).
The Checkpoint Charlie Founda-tion,
which fosters collaboration
between American and German
institutions, named McDonough
recipient of the first John Jacob
Astor Award for “exceptional
contribution to the transatlantic
transfer of information. Her recent
article, “Hosting strengths ties at
home and abroad,” International
Leads (September 2005) profiles
representative examples of SIBL’s
global reach.
Brian Kubis (BSIS ’05), who
double majored in information
science and economics, has begun
work at SunTrust Bank in the
Research Triangle Area as a com-mercial
banking associate.
Leslie Madden (MSLS ’96),
husband Bill and daughter
Claudia, welcomed Julian Paul
on Easter Sunday, April 11, 2004.
Leslie is a reference librarian at the
Georgia Institute of Technology.
Corinne Mahoney (MSLS ’05)
received an award from the Special
Libraries Association’s Environ-mental
Resources Management
Division for her student paper
“Doing More With Less and Liking
It.” In it Mahoney discussed the
major challenges facing environ-mental
libraries. She focused on
the positive impact of these chal-lenges,
which has forced librarians
to be more creative
with fewer resources.
Dr. Robert Martin
(Ph.D. ’88) has been
appointed Lillian
Bradshaw Endowed
Photo by Barry Miller
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Alumni News
Jo Powers (MSLS ’04) is the as-sistant
manager of cataloging and
technical services at Talbot County
Library in Easton, Md.
A revision of Joe Ripp’s (MSLS
’03) master’s paper on Lord of
the Rings, “Middle America Meets
Middle Earth,” has been published
in Book History, the annual pub-lication
of the Society of Author-ship,
Reading and Publishing.
Chuck Thomas (MSLS ’96)
was appointed assistant director
for Integrated Digital Services &
Scholarly Communication at the
Florida State University Libraries.
Rose Timmons Dawson
(MSLS ’85) is the new deputy
director of the Alexandria Library
system in Alexandria, Va. She for-merly
worked for the D.C. Public
Chair of Library Science at Texas
Woman’s University. Martin was
nominated in 2001, by Presi-dent
George W. Bush as the first
librarian director of the National
Institute of Museum and Library
Services. IMLS is a federal grant-making
agency dedicated to help-ing
the nation’s 15,000 museums
and 122,000 libraries serve their
communities.
Elizabeth G. McClenney (MSLS
’89) is the new associate director for
Technology and Access Services at
Robert W. Woodruff Library in the
Atlanta University Center.
“Ranking the Research Productiv-ity
of Library and Information
Science Faculty and Schools: An
Evaluation of Data Sources and
Research Methods” a paper by
Lokman Meho (Ph.D. ’01) and
Ph.D. student Kristina Spur-gin,
was published in the April
issue of the Journal of American
Society for Information Science
and Technology.
Xiangming Mu (Ph.D. ’04)
received grant support for his re-search
project “Interactive Virtual
Reference: Model, System, and Pi-lot
User Study” from the Institute
of Museum and Library Services.
The study will include developing
an interactive virtual reference
model in hopes of increasing
patron usage of VR service and
improving library patrons’ search
strategy formulation.
Joyce Ogburn (MSLS ’82) be-came
the director of the J. Willard
Marriott Library at the University
of Utah on September 1.
The NCSU Libraries has appointed
Darby C. Orcutt as senior
collection manager for Humani-ties
and Social Sciences, effective
March 1, 2006. Orcutt will lead
the NCSU Libraries’ collection
programs in all humanities
and social sciences disciplines,
with responsibility for planning,
policy development, and budget
management.
Irene Owens (Ph.D. ’95) was
appointed dean of the School of Li-brary
and Information Science at
North Carolina Central University.
Dr. Owens served at the University
of Texas at Austin Graduate School
of Information for ten years. She is
the former head librarian at How-ard
University School of Divinity.
Kimberly Poe Shelton (MSLS
’99) gave birth to her son Alex-ander
Chase Shelton on October
6, 2005.
Library
as their
coordinator
of Commu-nity
Youth
Services.
K.T. Vaughan (MSLS ’01) has
a new appointment as a clinical
assistant professor in the UNC at
Chapel Hill’s School of Pharmacy
in addition to her primary posi-tion
as the librarian for Bioinfor-matics
& Pharmacy at the UNC
Health Sciences Library. K.T. also
received the 2005 James M. Cretsos
Leadership
Award from
ASIST, and
is expecting
publica-tion
of her
second book,
Building Bridges: Collaboration
Within and Beyond the Academic
Library (with Anne Langley and
Teddy Gray of Duke).
Linwood Webster (MSLS ’02)
was awarded the 2005 Minor
Mickel-Shaw Excellence in Advis-ing
Award, which recognizes excel-lence
in advising and is presented
annually to advisors in Carolina’s
Academic Advising Programs in
the College of Arts and Sciences
and the General College.
Emily Weiss (MSLS ’05) has
joined Connecticut’s Darien
Library as the first Louise
Parker Berry fellow. Her fellowship
­includes
working two years with
library director Louise Berry as her
mentor on a series of projects.
Kiduk Yang (MSLS ’02) and
Lokman Meho (Ph.D. ’01)
received the OCLC/ALISE 2006
Library and Information Science
Research Award. They were
awarded for their project “Citation
Analysis of Library and Informa-tion
Science Faculty Publications:
ISI Databases and Beyond.”
Meng Yang
(Ph.D. ’05) is currently working at
IBM Lotus
Software
Group, as
a usability
specialist.
Meng plans
on staying
in the
Research Triangle Park area until
the end of the year and then plans
on moving to an IBM branch in
the Boston area.
Jessica Zellers (MSLS ’05) and
Rita Bhattacharyya (MSLS
’05) have both been hired at the
Blackwater Regional Library
in Courtland, Va. Zellers is the
customer services coordinator and
Bhattacharyya serves as manager
of the Smithfield branch.
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Former School of Information and Library
Science professor and well-known scholar,
Haynes McMullen, 90, died on Aug. 30 at
Houston Medical Center. McMullen was an
avid researcher who collected a vast database of
information about pre-1876 libraries during his
40-year professorship with the School of Infor-mation
and Library Science at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A productive scholar long after he retired in 1985 at the age
of 70, McMullen’s last book, American Libraries before 1876, was
published in 2001. McMullen was one of the most respected library
historians in the profession and he will be remembered by SILS staff
for his welcoming attitude.
“I never saw him without a smile on his face,” SILS Professor
and former Dean Barbara Moran, noted. “Haynes was a wonderful
scholar and a true gentleman. All of the faculty and students loved
him.”
The research that McMullen complied while working at SILS
has now been made available online through Princeton Univer-sity.
It has been described by the American Libraries Association
as a “rich source of
material…that anybody
interested in the history of
public libraries certainly
needs to be aware of.”
McMullen’s career
included a 20-year faculty
position at Indiana Uni-versity’s
Library School,
before he moved to UNC.
He was also formerly the
head librarian at what
is now James Madison
University.
Born in Tarkio, Mo., McMullen received his undergraduate
education at Centre College in Danville, Ky., his Master’s of Science
in Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
and his doctoral degree in Library Science at The University of
Chicago, Ill.
McMullen is survived by his wife, Sun Hauk McMullen of Cen-terville,
Ga.; a son, Joel McMullen of Centerville, Ga.; a step-daugh-ter,
Sun Ae Arinaga of Honolulu, Hi; a sister, Catherine G. Craig of
Modena, N.Y.; a brother, Bryce McMullen of Baltimore, Md.; three
grandchildren and one great-grand child. q
Former SILS Professor Dies
after Long Scholarly Career
IN
MEMORIAM
Former director at UNC Chapel Hill’s Music Library from 1984-1997,
Ida M. Reed, passed away on Oct. 9, 2005 after a 13 year battle
with cancer. She was 63. Reed taught the music librarianship course
at SILS for many years before retiring and has been described as a
wonderful and caring colleague. Reed’s scholarship was also far-reaching.
In 1997, she edited the fifth edition of “Music Reference
and Research Materials,” which has become a prominent work in
the field. Reed was known for her love of books, quilting and baking.
She is survived by her brothers, George McAliley, Charley McAliley and
Sammy Army of North Carolina.
Known to everyone at SILS as Miss Freeman, former assistant to
the dean and lecturer Jean Freeman died peacefully on October
27 at Springmoor Retirement Community. She was 93 years old.
Freeman had degrees from both UNC Greensboro and Chapel Hill.
She made numerous contributions to the Library School and will
be remembered for her dedication to the profession and continued
involvement with the school even after her retirement in the late
1970s. Freeman is survived by nephew, Richard Allen Freeman Jr. of
Raleigh; nieces Elizabeth Warner Freeman Gephart of Raleigh, and
Emily Carson Freeman of Emerald Isle; three great nieces; eight great
nephews; four great-great nieces and eight great-great nephews.
Sam W. Hitt, librarian emeritus at UNC Chapel Hill’s Health
Sciences Library, died at home on Dec. 11, 2005. He was 84. Hitt
was a leader in the health sciences profession, serving in Texas and
Connecticut before coming to Chapel Hill as library director from
1976-1986. He served on the Medical Library Association’s (MLA)
Board of Directors from 1970-1976 and was given highest honors
for his expansion of library buildings, collections and services with
MLA’s Marcia Noyes Award in 1982. He grew up in Arkansas, served
in WWII and attended school at the University of Missouri and Emory
University. He is survived by his four children and their families, a
brother and a sister. Hitt’s wife Harriett predeceased him.
Jessica Graham Dalton (BSLS ’48) June 20, 2005
Dixie Lou Lyons Fisher (CLIB ’50) Oct. 31, 2005
Sarah Fore Gaines (MSLS ’83) Dec. 5, 2005
Priscilla Griffey Harpham (BSLS’44) Sept. 4, 2005
Lesley Brown Levine (MSLS ’68) Oct. 16, 2005
Lucy Elizabeth McDavid (MSLS ’62) Nov. 29, 2005
Adriana Pannevis Orr (MSLS ’58) Ma 24, 2005
Death notices are provided by the UNC at Chapel Hill General Alumni
Association (GAA). Dates in parentheses indicate class year. Notify the GAA
Records Department with death announcements at PO Box 660; Chapel
Hill, NC 27514.
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